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<blockquote data-quote="Burrito Al Pastor" data-source="post: 4755032" data-attributes="member: 27303">All movement is expressed in units of squares; thus, altitude is measured in squares.Movement is never taken in fractions of a square.Thus, all creatures are always in vertical strata of one-square (i.e. 5') increments.(Incidentally, the ability of creatures to ascend or descend diagonally isn't really a rule in itself, but a natural result of the new grid movement applied to a grid system - you can move as many squares on one axis as you do on another, and this works the same if your second axis is a Y or a Z axis. Strictly speaking, you shouldn't be able to ascend or descend more than your speed in a round, but it would be so incredibly rare that a creature would need to do so that to include a note as such would result in rules clutter.)As far as how much vertical space creatures take up, it's not really ever addressed, but it's also something that would virtually never actually matter. It's simplest to assume that a creature takes up as many vertical spaces as they do horizontal spaces, simply for the sake of convention and simplicity; people aren't going to be two squares tall, and dragons aren't going to be one square tall. That's how it worked in 3.5 when they fixed all the nonstandard sizes of 3.0, and the size rules haven't otherwise changed much since then, so I can't see any reason why one should assume height is any different.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Burrito Al Pastor, post: 4755032, member: 27303"] All movement is expressed in units of squares; thus, altitude is measured in squares. Movement is never taken in fractions of a square. Thus, all creatures are always in vertical strata of one-square (i.e. 5') increments. (Incidentally, the ability of creatures to ascend or descend diagonally isn't really a rule in itself, but a natural result of the new grid movement applied to a grid system - you can move as many squares on one axis as you do on another, and this works the same if your second axis is a Y or a Z axis. Strictly speaking, you shouldn't be able to ascend or descend more than your speed in a round, but it would be so incredibly rare that a creature would need to do so that to include a note as such would result in rules clutter.) As far as how much vertical space creatures take up, it's not really ever addressed, but it's also something that would virtually never actually matter. It's simplest to assume that a creature takes up as many vertical spaces as they do horizontal spaces, simply for the sake of convention and simplicity; people aren't going to be two squares tall, and dragons aren't going to be one square tall. That's how it worked in 3.5 when they fixed all the nonstandard sizes of 3.0, and the size rules haven't otherwise changed much since then, so I can't see any reason why one should assume height is any different. [/QUOTE]

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