• Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    5e accounts for diagonal distance. Each second diagonal is 10ft. A 10ft. radius sphere spell would cover this pattern on the ground:

    OOOOOOO

    OOXXXOO

    OXXXXXO

    OXXXXXO

    OXXXXXO

    OOXXXOO

    OOOOOOO

    …lemmy formatting kills that but you get the point I hope.

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          8 months ago

          You’re welcome! For reference it’s a code block, all formatting goes out the window, returns are considered returns, and a monospaced font. You use three backticks (```) on a line above and below your “code” (you can technically specify the code type at the end of that first back tick line) and then go to town between them.

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            8 months ago

            I use them for actual code but the ability to use them to get normal returns somehow hadn’t occurred to me haha

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              8 months ago

              You can also have “normal returns”, or line breaks instead of new paragraph, by putting a double space at the end of a line:

              Hello
              Double
              Spaced
              Lemmy!

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                8 months ago

                Omg yes I forgot about this thank you

                Newlines are great
                But they should just format them normally

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      8 months ago

      That is only listed in 5e as an optional rule, by default a square is a square and is 5ft regardless of diagonal or not.

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        8 months ago

        Feats are also an optional rule, but I’ve never heard of a table not using them. “Optional rule” in 5e is kind of like the term “theory” IRL, in that some really are optional and some are basically always used. I will admit that not all tables use the diagonal rule, though.