How does Blast work?

[Reaper Steve]

The breath weapons of the two dragons we have stats for are Close Blast 5.
Do we know how that works exactly?

I know a burst is centered on the model and affects all around at that radius, like the Fear they also have. But a blast is different, and it's been said that it won't use a cone template.

Thoughts?

 

[Charwoman Gene]

Square of the given size across adjacent to the model

 

[Reaper Steve]

Square of the given size across adjacent to the model

Thanks!
You know, I like that.
I like that much better than the horrible cones they came up with for DDM 2.0.
Too bad they didn't use the 4.0 blast for DDM, too.

 

[cdrcjsn]

I thought that an outer corner also has to be adjacent to one of the creature's corners?

 

[keterys]

No such restriction that I know of...

 

[Reaper Steve]

I thought that an outer corner also has to be adjacent to one of the creature's corners?

I hope not... that would be a step in the direction of the DDM cones, which is the wrong direction.
The DDM cones can't be centered straight ahead, enforcing such a corner-to-corner restriction on the square blasts would effectively impose the same limitation.