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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sirea" data-source="post: 4165685" data-attributes="member: 30879">Yes, we do mean 'one and sixty hundredths'. Personally I'm 1m72 tall, so when people ask me "how tall are you?" my answer is "1m72". So there is more precision in using cm compared to inches.Now I've been playing D&D for over 15 years, so I'm quite familiar with inches, feet, yards and miles. For practical purposes during roleplay we mentally convert them to 2.5cm, 30cm, 1 meter and 1.5km respectively though. That are units we can calculate in.It's obvious that ease of calculation is the result of being raised in one of the 2 systems. Some of the examples of 'metric being hard' given in this thread are completely trivial to me, while the imperial calculations are a lot harder (for me).I have no problem with imperial being used in D&D, by the way. It has that nice historical feeling, while metric feels modern.One last remark: I disagree with metric being artificial and imperial being natural. For all practical purposes, 1 liter water has a volume of 1 dm³ and weighs 1 kg. Although none of the units are scientificaly defined by this, it just happens to be like that. So length, volume and weight all are nicely tied to getter by one of the most natural things there is: water. (You can also add temperature in degrees Celcius to, 0 being the freezing point of water)</blockquote>