Why are all movement rates in increments of 10?

[Limper]

If the gods intended us to have movement rates increments of 10, they would have given us ten fingers and ten toes.

*Limper looks at hands and feet, then looks at Ridley's Cohort and snickers*

Good Point!

 

[KarinsDad]

In my game (house rule, sorry), I use 5 foot increments and even a 2.5 foot increment for medium armor.

So, medium size movement is:

light: 30
medium: 25
heavy: 20

Small size movement is:

light: 20
medium: 17.5
heavy: 15

Then, the character just rounds up for the weird stuff. For example, a small medium armor move is 4 five foot hexes, not 3.5 (a double move becomes 7 five foot hexes). I do not sweat the small stuff there.

The reason I put this in was due to the lack of utility of medium armors. Every character in my game (and every game I played in) used either light armor with high DEX or heavy armor with low DEX. Now, a few characters are actually using medium armor with medium DEX since movement for it is no longer penalized as heavily as heavy armor.

 

[Grayhawk]

KarinsDad, I'm doing the same in my game with regards to medium creatures in medium armors only having their speed reduced by 5 feet.

(Small creatures still have their speed equally reduced by medium and heavy armors.)

 

[Hypersmurf]

medium: 17.5

Then, the character just rounds up for the weird stuff.

Halfway up the stairs isn't up and isn't down...

... it isn't really anywhere, it's somewhere else instead...

-Hyp.

 

[Gez]

You know that anyway, with funky imperial measures, 10 feet are equal to 5 legs, so here you are, instant 5 increments.

OF interesting note, this is also equal to 31.42 kidneys, or 666 nosehairlengths. The numerlogists among you will draw the blatant conclusions.