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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (3 children)

And pretending imperial measurements are better than metric!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

As a non-American who didn't grow up with imperial, I still prefer it for fantasy. Metric sounds too modern and scientific. Also I feel like I have more room to fudge distances because it already sounds imprecise.

Would be a fun bit to make the players use metric in a magitech world though.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I use metric for the fantasy that my country isn't dumb 😥

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

In the UK the government was considering switching back to imperial (just to pretend we're not in Europe). Honestly I think they didn't because otherwise they'd get too many milkshakes thrown at them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Don't care. My sheets have all the measurements without major mechanical significance listed in SI units. Length of hempen rope? 15 metres. Darkvision range? 18 metres. Character weight? Kilograms. The only imperial unit I keep using is speed (ft/turn)