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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 9871211" data-attributes="member: 15700">One of the rules in 1e that didn't carry over to 2e or any other edition that I always thought was cool was how measurements are treated.  Specifically outdoors vs. dungeons (indoors). Most folks familiar with 1e are familiar with a measurement like 6".  Either movement, or a spell or bow range, etc.  But in the outdoors, each 1" is 10 yards and 1" indoors is 10 feet. It's justified by "in dungeons or indoors, there are obstacles, tunnels, twist, and turns to justify why the effective range of a bow is much less than it would be outdoors when you have a longer line of sight."Yeah, that kinda makes sense.  But I never see it applied, especially for spells.  The effect of your spell is greatly modified by if you're outdoors or not. A spell with a 3" radius has a 30-foot radius indoors, and a 90-foot radius outdoors. That 20-foot radius fireball in the dungeon has a 60-foot radius when outdoors!Not something I really recall a lot of folks playing that way.  Just another wonky way 1e handled things that never carried over.</blockquote>