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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 4053345" data-attributes="member: 1154">I had an epiphany in the shower today...The ratio of the distance between two diagonal spaces to the distance between two orthogonal spaces is √2 which is approximately 1.414.1.5 is a decent approximation, but 1.4 is a significantly better approximation. 1.4 is even more difficult to add, though...But what if we look at it as a fraction? 1.4/1=14/10=7/5In other words, diagonal movement on a square grid is seven fifths the length of orthogonal movement! In other words, if a square is 5 feet, then moving diagonal is almost exactly 7 feet! The exact number is 7.07 feet.That's so perfect that I can only assume that when the Flying Spaghetti Monster created space and time, he created it such that it would be convenient for tracking distance on a square grid with 5' squares.Think about what that means. The system's not abstract anymore! If you make it 5 feet to move orthogonally and 7 feet to move diagonally, you're almost perfectly approximating the actual distance! So if your character has 30 feet of movement speed, they get to move 30 feet. Not 6 squares, not 12 mp, they move 30 feet.Brilliant!</blockquote>