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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
OOOOOOO
OOXXXOO
OXXXXXO
OXXXXXO
OXXXXXO
OOXXXOO
OOOOOOO
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Omg yes I forgot about this thank you

Newlines are great
But they should just format them normally

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 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.