Squared FireBalls?

[JahellTheBard]

Along with the concept that diagonal count as the side of a square ( no more 1,5 times), we have to consider that in 4 Ed. Fireball ( and all the like) will expand in a squared space ???

Seems very odd to me ...

 

[Derren]

Yes it is.

See http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=218777 for a lengthy discussion about this.

 

[Hella_Tellah]

Along with the concept that diagonal count as the side of a square ( no more 1,5 times), we have to consider that in 4 Ed. Fireball ( and all the like) will expand in a squared space ???

Seems very odd to me ...

A fireball will only be square if the areas of spells will be determined the same way movement is, as in 3e. I doubt that will be the case, and I strongly suspect a fireball will remain spherical in shape.

 

[BradfordFerguson]

I am thinking about squaring rounded magical effects in my streamlined d20 fantasy game.

 

[jodyjohnson]

A fireball will only be square if the areas of spells will be determined the same way movement is, as in 3e. I doubt that will be the case, and I strongly suspect a fireball will remain spherical in shape.

I haven't seen a spherical Fireball since 1999.

 

[Hella_Tellah]

I haven't seen a spherical Fireball since 1999.

Uh... are 3e fireballs insufficiently spherical for your tastes?

 

[Wormwood]

Uh... are 3e fireballs insufficiently spherical for your tastes?

At 1ppi, my battlemat is fairly low resolution---the fireballs look waaay too pixelated.

 

[Derren]

A fireball will only be square if the areas of spells will be determined the same way movement is, as in 3e. I doubt that will be the case, and I strongly suspect a fireball will remain spherical in shape.

And that would mean that when standing in the center of a persistent area effect (say web) you can get much faster out of the area of effect when walking diagonally than when walking in a straight line.

Even more silliness....

 

[Mortellan]

Them's the breaks of grid based combat. Other mini games such as WH 40k use circular templates and arent bound by grids. My group has done rather well using the same system for D&D encounters when in open terrain. Works less well in dungeons that tend to be gridded all the time.

 

[Cmarco]

At 1ppi, my battlemat is fairly low resolution---the fireballs look waaay too pixelated.

Dang it Wormwood! You took the words right out of my mouth again! Ha!