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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7025404" data-attributes="member: 82106">So? In order to measure feet you still need to have your minis laid out on a surface, have some scale factor, and measure distances and translate them to feet. Otherwise how do you know that the orc is or is not within the radius of the fireball, or actually even where exactly the origin point of the fireball IS relative to all the other elements in play? There is no provision WITHIN THE RULES OF 5e to avoid needing to make this determination, and the only supported way to do so is measurement! The notion that describing things in an in-world measurement system using feet somehow makes it 'TotM' simply doesn't wash. It may sound better to you, and that may improve your game experience, but it doesn't in any way support a game process of playing without some sort of map (though it is certainly true that 5e doesn't describe things in terms of a grid, which was also true BTW of AD&D for the most part).</blockquote>