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<blockquote data-quote="DarkKestral" data-source="post: 3853476" data-attributes="member: 40100">Myself, I'd much rather see spell radii and ranges done in feet or meters (in-game measurements, mind you) with angles. Not done as a X by Y in squares option. I'd also like to see rules that allow for the classic wargaming use of a ruler, and maybe a protractor. (I don't think it's THAT hard to set up a scale and then simply mark out feet on the ruler...) If done right, it certainly would avoid some of the 'tactical chess' that happens nowadays. Maybe I'd do something like make a little paper template to describe a threatened area, and you could see at a glance what you're likely to suffer, and point placement's not as much of an issue when you have a template that matches your fireball...At the same time, for some games, that wouldn't work, because even that would run counter to the spirit of the game. Courtly intrigue games, for example, or some beer-and-pretzels fights. For a major fight, you'd break out the more detailed description of the battlefield, but for some fights, you shouldn't NEED to break it out to say &quot;we fireball the orc horde. how much damage did we do?&quot; And sometimes, you need that cut back to our reality, if only to gather that sense of scale. A speed of 5 squares/rd. tells me little. A speed of 30'/rd. tells me quite a bit.&nbsp;So a game that requires minis and battlemat affects certain gaming styles pretty negatively, or at least forces them to require some houseruling. I'd like a system that makes a battlemat and minis useful, but not required.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DarkKestral, post: 3853476, member: 40100"] Myself, I'd much rather see spell radii and ranges done in feet or meters (in-game measurements, mind you) with angles. Not done as a X by Y in squares option. I'd also like to see rules that allow for the classic wargaming use of a ruler, and maybe a protractor. (I don't think it's THAT hard to set up a scale and then simply mark out feet on the ruler...) If done right, it certainly would avoid some of the 'tactical chess' that happens nowadays. Maybe I'd do something like make a little paper template to describe a threatened area, and you could see at a glance what you're likely to suffer, and point placement's not as much of an issue when you have a template that matches your fireball... At the same time, for some games, that wouldn't work, because even that would run counter to the spirit of the game. Courtly intrigue games, for example, or some beer-and-pretzels fights. For a major fight, you'd break out the more detailed description of the battlefield, but for some fights, you shouldn't NEED to break it out to say "we fireball the orc horde. how much damage did we do?" And sometimes, you need that cut back to our reality, if only to gather that sense of scale. A speed of 5 squares/rd. tells me little. A speed of 30'/rd. tells me quite a bit. So a game that requires minis and battlemat affects certain gaming styles pretty negatively, or at least forces them to require some houseruling. I'd like a system that makes a battlemat and minis useful, but not required. [/QUOTE]

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