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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Geron Raveneye" data-source="post: 4052515" data-attributes="member: 2268">Chess? What's chess got to do with D&D? Chess doesn't assume a square is 5'x5', for one, or any size, actually. Chess has taken abstraction to extreme levels in order to faciliate a game that is only bothered about long-term strategic thinking on a simplified battlefield. Chess is not trying to describe a fictional reality on its board. Chess is about as far away from D&D as a whole as it can get.The disconnect for a lot of people with the new movement rules is pretty simple...it impacts reality on a deeper level than "it's just for combat". A square is, by definition, 5'x5'. Moving either orthogonally or diagonally is, by definition, a move of one square. Which leaves us with either of these conclusions:a) The diagonal of a 5'x5' square is equally 5' long.orb) The diagonal of a 5'x5' square is roughly 7' long, but a character can still traverse it in one movement step.If the measuring used during combat is consistent with how distances and geometry works in non-combat situations, it paints a very skewed picture of the campaign world behind it, because either geometry is TOTALLY alien to ours, or movement speed depends on the direction a person moves in relation to some sort of grid underlying the world. If this kind of measuring only comes up during combat, the world undergoes a reality shift every time a group of adventurers goes into combat mode, either locally or globally. Either way, it's a lot more than some simple handwaving can explain away for a lot of people here (and personally, I know quite a few players who'll have a snark fest about this rule when they get told of it).And if all rooms are aligned so their walls run orthogonally to the grid, no matter how they are aligned towards each other, I'd LOVE to see the border squares in the grid along the line where the angle suddenly changes from one room to the next when you look at it on a bigger map.Or we could simply throw consistency out of the window...it's just a silly RPG after all, nobody cares about those details anyway, right?</blockquote>

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