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It comes up more often than you'd think (startrek.website)
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[–] DroneRights@lemm.ee 11 points 9 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

[–] FunctionFn@feddit.nl 6 points 9 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.

[–] DroneRights@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago

It's also true for spells that target a creature

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Nah, what would be silly is using Manhattan distance