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It comes up more often than you'd think (startrek.website)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Dungeons and Dragons is non-euclidian. The length of the hypotenuse is equal to the longer of the two sides. Yes, it's silly. But that's RAW

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's only true for movement. For areas of effect, there are templates for each size for square grids that are roughly shaped like real circles.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

It's also true for spells that target a creature

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Nah, what would be silly is using Manhattan distance