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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3611570" data-attributes="member: 1656">Hmm.  I'd thought it was specific to 10 foot reach, not to all reach.... is that quote actually an accurate reflection of the rules?  The note is not in the PHB, and it's not in the SRD available from the WotC site.  It looks like someone's added it to the Hypertext SRD.The note in the PHB is "For instance, a longspear-wielding human threatens all squares 10 feet (2 squares) away, even diagonally.  This is an exception to the rule that 2 squares of diagonal distance is measured as 15 feet."By my reading, the exception is for 10 foot reach, not for all reach.  The Hypertext SRD has paraphrased... and in so doing, changed the rule.As I read it, two squares diagonal is threatened by a creature with 15 foot reach (since it's 15 feet away), and by a creature with 10 foot reach (since it's an exception).  Three squares diagonal is still 20 feet away, and isn't threatened by a creature with 15 foot reach.According to the wording in the Hypertext SRD, any creature's reach is always a square, no matter how large.  Kraken with 60 foot tenatacles?  Reaches a square 140 feet to a side.  I don't get the impression this is what the wording in the PHB indicates.-Hyp.</blockquote>