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<blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 4116470" data-attributes="member: 7533">I dunno...&nbsp; It always amused me that in 3rd Edition, something as supposedly fast as a dragon flies at less than 14 mph, when it isn't hustling or running.Note that the <a href="http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/" target="_blank">average air speed velocity of an unladen swallow</a> is roughly 24 miles per hour... About 210 ft., or 42 squares, in a six second round. We shall assume &quot;cruising speed&quot; means taking both it's standard and movement actions to move.If the numbers for that study are accurate, the maximum speed for an unladen swallow is roughly 13-14 m/s. We'll call it 45 ft. (9 squares). That's about 31 mph, or 270 ft. (54 squares) in a round, and only 12 squares more than &quot;cruising speed&quot;.&nbsp; If we use the 4E rules for running, that'd give us 46 squares per for a swallow running with both it's standard and move action, which equates to about 26 mph. In other words, an unladen swallow -- European, for those paying attention -- has a movement of 21 squares, 42 if it hustles, and 46 to 54 squares (depending on whether you use the game rules or real life speeds for running) when it &quot;runs&quot;.&nbsp;<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pbartender, post: 4116470, member: 7533"] I dunno... It always amused me that in 3rd Edition, something as supposedly fast as a dragon flies at less than 14 mph, when it isn't hustling or running. Note that the [url=http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/]average air speed velocity of an unladen swallow[/url] is roughly 24 miles per hour... About 210 ft., or 42 squares, in a six second round. We shall assume "cruising speed" means taking both it's standard and movement actions to move. If the numbers for that study are accurate, the maximum speed for an unladen swallow is roughly 13-14 m/s. We'll call it 45 ft. (9 squares). That's about 31 mph, or 270 ft. (54 squares) in a round, and only 12 squares more than "cruising speed". If we use the 4E rules for running, that'd give us 46 squares per for a swallow running with both it's standard and move action, which equates to about 26 mph. In other words, an unladen swallow -- European, for those paying attention -- has a movement of 21 squares, 42 if it hustles, and 46 to 54 squares (depending on whether you use the game rules or real life speeds for running) when it "runs". ;) [/QUOTE]

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