D&D (2024) What Should D&D 2024 Have Been +

[payn]

I wish the 2024 would switch from 5ft-Squares to the 1yard/1meter-square.

I'm aware that 1 yard ≠ 1 meter, but it's close enough that I would be okay with either being used.

 

[Argyle King]

Maps would more accurately describe sizes of buildings, doors, and etc.

From a math perspective and learning the game, 1s = 1m is simpler than 1s = 5ft.

 

[payn]

Maps would more accurately describe sizes of buildings, doors, and etc.

From a math perspective and learning the game, 1s = 1m is simpler than 1s = 5ft.

So marginally different, just cant agree.

 

[Argyle King]

So marginally different, just cant agree.

Fair enough. Different people like different things.

For me, gaining a better method of measurement echoes into improving other aspects of play, while also making it easier to use real-world floorplans as maps.

Additionally, if WoTC is looking to push D&D into a worldwide brand, a method of measurement that is more-easily understood across language barriers and different cultures would help facilitate that.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I wish the 2024 would switch from 5ft-Squares to the 1yard/1meter-square.

I'm aware that 1 yard ≠ 1 meter, but it's close enough that I would be okay with either being used.

since no one in Martial Arts can understand the 5ft as anything realistic for range, I don't see why we couldn't cut it down to 1yard/meter with a 'close enough'

 

[CapnZapp]

I expanded on my take re: what D&D 2024 probably won't fix.

D&D 5E - Advanced D&D or "what to minimally fix in 5E?"

For a while now I've been frustrated by the lack of a product that enhancens and deepens 5E without shooting off and making a new game. There's been quite a number of supposedly saviors of 5E that upon inspection (or right away) turns out to be something else than 5E. They change up the classes...

www.enworld.org

 

[Micah Sweet]

Fair enough. Different people like different things.

For me, gaining a better method of measurement echoes into improving other aspects of play, while also making it easier to use real-world floorplans as maps.

Additionally, if WoTC is looking to push D&D into a worldwide brand, a method of measurement that is more-easily understood across language barriers and different cultures would help facilitate that.

Their biggest market is still the US though. Do you really think international sales are affected all that much by a difference in measuring systems? WotC only cares about the math, so any argument for change has to have a math-friendly reason.

 

[Argyle King]

Their biggest market is still the US though. Do you really think international sales are affected all that much by a difference in measuring systems? WotC only cares about the math, so any argument for change has to have a math-friendly reason.

So, the yard then.

Math reason:
1s = 1y is simpler than 1s = 5ft.

The main drawback to this is losing the perfect square shape of contemporary D&D minis, as things like horses become a base of 1x2 instead of a base of 2×2.

 

[Vaalingrade]

We could just say 'square' and let people apply the exact measurements they want like how we treat how much a gold is worth.

 

[Lanefan]

I wish the 2024 would switch from 5ft-Squares to the 1yard/1meter-square.

The problem with that is the sheer number of squares you have to count in a big area. Right now, for example, a 60x60' room would be 6 squares if using 10' scale or 12 squares (which is already bad enough!) if using 5' scale. Your idea would make it 20 squares across, and that's a nuisance to have to count in a hurry.