D&D General I hate five-foot passages!

[Paul Farquhar]

Most of the hallways where I live are around 3 feet wide. I can fit down them just fine. That's equivalent to 6 feet wide if I was a large creature.

 

[Oofta]

I don't know the module in question, but traditionally slaad aren't known to be builders or designers. They probably didn't build the place to their own specifications.

And, with all respect, if you are working with slaad, for whatever imbecilic reason you'd work with violent natives of Limbo that are considered largely insane by the rest of the multiverse, you don't want them moving around free and easy. Keeping them in a room that's awkward for them to leave seems smart in a "I don't want everyone else here getting implanted with slaad eggs" kind of way.

Doesn't necessarily apply to Slaadi, I was thinking more along the lines of giants, etc..

 

[Horwath]

Most of the hallways where I live are around 3 feet wide. I can fit down them just fine. That's equivalent to 6 feet wide if I was a large creature.

Fit into and fight is not the same,
I could squeeze into 1 ft wide corridor but fighting would probably be with cursing only.

 

[Oofta]

Most of the hallways where I live are around 3 feet wide. I can fit down them just fine. That's equivalent to 6 feet wide if I was a large creature.

Which is fine for a private residence. After all you don't expect to be swinging a sword in your house. On the other hand, passages small enough that you have to squeeze (in D&D terms) to get through in fortifications were generally choke points meant to be defended.

How often do you have anyone other than close family members going the opposite direction?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

How often do you have anyone other than close family members going the opposite direction?

How often does a solitary giant?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Interesting quote in Fizban's Treasury of Dragons on this topic:

You can adjust the scale on the lair maps to suit the needs of the dragon lairing there. If you use these maps for a wyrmling’s lair, you might set the scale to 5 feet per square, but for an ancient dragon or a greatwyrm, you might need to go as high as 20 feet per square to give the dragon room to move.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Fit into and fight is not the same,
I could squeeze into 1 ft wide corridor but fighting would probably be with cursing only.

I don't want people fighting in my home.

 

[Bagpuss]

Realism. In real life, 5 foot is quite a wide passage.

True but if you are a creature that needs to squeeze to fit in a 5ft corridor, you can bet you would design your home wider than that.

Also D&D is a tactical game, a 5ft corridor means only the front character is involved most of the time, which is pretty boring.

 

[Meech17]

And, with all respect, if you are working with slaad, for whatever imbecilic reason you'd work with violent natives of Limbo that are considered largely insane by the rest of the multiverse, you don't want them moving around free and easy.

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[Umbran]

Doesn't necessarily apply to Slaadi, I was thinking more along the lines of giants, etc..

Yeah, but the example at hand is slaad. And they are in a delving that does not seem primarily created as a fortification. So, it being sized more as living space (for illithids) seems about right.