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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 6516297" data-attributes="member: 32740">You should do what works for you and your group.  If the HR works for you then the argument is pretty much over.  Game on and enjoy.I assume we're talking about 3rd Edition rules here?  If so then the whole system is MEANT to work by snapping to a grid.  Not "allowed by" the rules - that IS how the rules work for movement, range, cover, areas of effect and more.  It was done that way specifically as an attempt to ELIMINATE questions of imprecision just like this.  If you really want magic to work unreliably then you're probably actually using the wrong rules, and maybe the wrong RPG entirely.  D&D magic isn't meant to be imprecise and unreliable.  It never was, although in older versions it was clearly more dangerous to the caster if he was trying it in the middle of combat than in later versions.  With very few exceptions magic in D&D just works.  Effects are placed where desired, affect whom it's intended it affect, and only as nearly an afterthought is the victim given an opportunity to avoid the effect, or reduce its effects.  The unreliability or inaccuracy of magic is only seen in the saving throw - not in nerfing the casters ability to position effects or pick targets.  3E did affect that a good deal by giving PC's the ability to adjust saving throws by myriad cumulative means - but the spells still are ACCURATE.Why would that accuracy be seen as a problem, or unrealistic?  Can an archer not hit a target moving at any imaginable speed at a range of 500'?  In other words, try shooting an unladen AFRICAN swallow hasted to fly at... 50 miles per hour, from about two football fields away.  UTTERLY unrealistic?  You bet.  But you will never, EVER hear anyone complain about how ridiculous that is.  You say that everyone considers your new rule fair and they seem to tolerate it - but why was this ever even considered a problem?</blockquote>

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