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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6361934" data-attributes="member: 996">I'd think you'd be familiar with rules that actually facilitate TotM, but, no, of course not, rather you'd have much /less/ granularity.  You'd have ranges like 'close' rather than 35' + 5'/level, for instance, or fireballs that affect '1 area' rather than a 20' radius, conforming to the available volume.  Much simpler, a bit more abstract, more rules-lite stuff that doesn't drown in detail or precision that's inconvenient to track without some sort of analogue to what's happening in the imagined world (be that tokens & grid, minis & play surface, or just sketched out Xs & Os).Absolutely.  Whether you're going to the precision of scale inches, feet, or 'squares,' the result in not innately suitable for TotM.  Indeed, while a scale inch or square strongly suggests using minis of a particular size, the finer granularity of in-world feet actually makes them even less suitable for TotM.  You could make the same judgement call about other things that make it important to keep track of positioning and movement.  Knowing whether three nearby orcs are caught in a 120-degree arc of 10' long jets of flame requires just as much careful tracking of relative positions as knowing whether one that was just pushed 10' can get past you to attack an ally without provoking on OA.But, no, you don't 'need' specific rules.  I can run Hero System in TotM, and it makes 3e or 4e look free-form by contrast.  But I'd never say Hero was /meant/ to be run that way.  I can also run any version of D&D that way - each might make some bits easier than others (areas easier in 4e because they're just cubes, positioning easier in AD&D by just house-ruling it away on the grounds of the 1-min round, movement in combat easier in 3e because it tended toward static full-attack exchanges that precluded all but 5' of it each round, etc) - but I wouldn't say any of them were designed for it just because I can make it work.  OTOH, FUDGE, FATE, 13A, or even the old MSH FASE-RIP system /are/ designed to be run TotM and have rules that reflect that. Not so much.  Once you do that, you have to start tracking it with some level of precision or you'll have inconsistencies - you never know when a player is going to notice that they were 60 feet away from a door, moved 35 feet towards it, but are now somehow 40 feet away, in spite of not having moved again.  That kind of thing is always an issue, since players can focus on just a few things like that, while you have to keep the entire scene organized in our head as GM.  It's a lot easier to track which characters are in each of a couple of 'areas' and which in a given area are adjacent, than how far each is from every other one, and from each feature in the scene.</blockquote>

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