Sure it's easy to remember, but just slightly more irritating to add and occasionally leaves remainders. None of which are "difficult" to deal with by any stretch, don't get me wrong... but counting every square of movement the same regardless of direction is just easi-er.Funny, I am the opposite. I never bothered to check, b/c I can't imagine it not costing (in my group's language) 1.5 boxes of movement to move diagonally.
EDIT: That is to say, I find the language of "alternating" confusing and prefer measuring distances in boxes anyway. So 1 box horizontal, 1.5 boxes diagonal is nice and easy to remember.
we'd use tape measures like the Warhammer folks do.
You can use a bonus action as a standard action.
Yeah, mine aren't "can't live without", but I like them very, very much.HA! And when a distance is in doubt I break out a tape measure I keep in my gaming room! (though usually eyeballing is close enough)
I wouldn't call this "can't live without" but we use this too.
Oh! You know what’s an absolute must-have for me, both as a DM and as a player? Experience. Not technically a house rule, but story-based advancement is such a common house-rule that I think it’s worth noting here. No, I won’t accept leveling up whenever the octopus in your brain decides it’s time for me to, I prefer to have a measurable indication of my progress towards leveling up, thank you very much.
Minor nitpick: While Rise of Tiamat erroneously referred to story-based advancement as “milestone leveling,” it is not consistent with how the DMG describes milestone XP, which is essentially just XP awards for stuff other than encounters. I actually think milestone XP as described in the DMG is great, and award it for completing quest objectives.Oh, God, yes. I ran my first campaign for 5e using milestones, and we all hated it. I use XP now, including the characters having different XP totals. That being said, I allow players that miss a session to get half XP if I have their character sheet, and if there's a new player, they start at the lowest level of the group, at whatever XP that is.
Never want to go back to milestones.