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<blockquote data-quote="Puggins" data-source="post: 4046822" data-attributes="member: 12386">You're making an assumption that the rules do not make.&nbsp; The rules are abstracting the distance a character can move, they are not abstracting the distances themselves.&nbsp; Thus, your first illustration is correct in that the monster and the wizard are indeed 30' apart.&nbsp; Your second illustration, on the other hand, is incorrect- the monster and the wizard are over 40' apart.&nbsp; The fact that the monster can get to the wizard via a straight line in both illustrations doesn't mean the two distances are the same.I thought about this abstraction quite a bit last night, and I'm a bit more open to it now.&nbsp; Strategic wargames that mean to model reality by abstracting movement do this sort of stuff all the time.&nbsp; Barbarossa to Berlin abstracts tank movement, making a single move look absolutely implausible but the ultimate effect of that move perfectly realistic.&nbsp; I'm still annoyed at the offense this causes to my mathematical mind, but I'm willing to try it out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Puggins, post: 4046822, member: 12386"] You're making an assumption that the rules do not make. The rules are abstracting the distance a character can move, they are not abstracting the distances themselves. Thus, your first illustration is correct in that the monster and the wizard are indeed 30' apart. Your second illustration, on the other hand, is incorrect- the monster and the wizard are over 40' apart. The fact that the monster can get to the wizard via a straight line in both illustrations doesn't mean the two distances are the same. I thought about this abstraction quite a bit last night, and I'm a bit more open to it now. Strategic wargames that mean to model reality by abstracting movement do this sort of stuff all the time. [i]Barbarossa to Berlin[/i] abstracts tank movement, making a single move look absolutely implausible but the ultimate effect of that move perfectly realistic. I'm still annoyed at the offense this causes to my mathematical mind, but I'm willing to try it out. [/QUOTE]

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