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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amaroq" data-source="post: 5136420" data-attributes="member: 15470">That's hilarious - so he killed the minion, what, several times over? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I think D&D "physics" get  a little bit broken when you start playing in three dimensions - bursts wind up cubic instead of spherical; ranged weapons have a range much longer if fired to the diagonal and uphill than they do fired level but straight along the orientation of the battlemap; and a gnome and a goliath can have the same strength despite the vast difference in sizes.Yes, I know its all abstraction to make things quicker, and in general I don't have a problem with it, it just bugs my inner math geek. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses    B-)" data-shortname="B-)" />As for being 5' tall, it makes as little sense as being 5' wide. Seriously, I was measuring things with a tape measure for some housework recently, and found that the main hallway in my (older) house is something like 30" wide .. which is two and a half feet, of course. Since I'm over 6' tall and I can easily walk down that without bumping shoulders against it, I'd think two people could walk abreast in a 5' hallway - and certainly could stand back to back in a 5' x 5' square if pressed.Fighting two abreast in a 5' hallway? That would be much harder ... but tactically, very much do-able if they fought legion-style: side by side, using short sword and shield; you use your shield to cover your ally as well as yourself, do a lot more piercing/stabbing attacks than sweeping side-to-side sword blows, and keep your sword strokes timed together so as not to interfere with each other. I could see it being really difficult to dislodge two determined fighters from a square like that .. (Inspiration from Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion, fantastic reading for a D&D player.) .. .. in fact, ooh, maybe my players will encounter a regiment of short-sword fighters at some point ... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /></blockquote>

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