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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 4043283" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah, and after twenty years of RPGs and wargames, sometimes some of us know when a rule is going to cause trouble, and thus it's not worth giving it &quot;a fair shot&quot;. I believe this is such a case.I can see why they did it, and I'm not so offended by the square spell effects, but unless your players are dumb, and you're willing to play dumb, this will make a mockery of any kind of attempt to block movement or get in the way, and generally provoke a lot of idiocy. I know my players will work out strategies to utilise this quirk within approximately three minutes of finding out it exists, so unless it blows 4E up in a shower of fragments to remove it, I think I'll be going with 1.5 cost diagonals. My players are smart enough to abuse diagonals, they're smart enough to add the most simple fraction <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 4043283, member: 18"] Yeah, and after twenty years of RPGs and wargames, sometimes some of us know when a rule is going to cause trouble, and thus it's not worth giving it "a fair shot". I believe this is such a case. I can see why they did it, and I'm not so offended by the square spell effects, but unless your players are dumb, and you're willing to play dumb, this will make a mockery of any kind of attempt to block movement or get in the way, and generally provoke a lot of idiocy. I know my players will work out strategies to utilise this quirk within approximately three minutes of finding out it exists, so unless it blows 4E up in a shower of fragments to remove it, I think I'll be going with 1.5 cost diagonals. My players are smart enough to abuse diagonals, they're smart enough to add the most simple fraction :p [/QUOTE]

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