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Ilandria
June 21st, 2023, 01:09
Hello,

We're running our campaign using no snap and raw distance instead of a grid system (which works very well overall), but I'm wondering if there's an option to show raw distances rounded up to the nearest multiple of 5 for the sake of clean numbers. Ideally I'd like >0-5 to say "5" and >5-10 to say "10".

The closest I've been able to achieve so far is using a hexagonal grid with both snap and raw distance disabled (whereas I usually play with snap off and raw distance on), but hexagonal grids seem to round up for horizontal distances and down for vertical distances (or the opposite for rotated hexes). While this is close to what I'd like, it means you can move and reach farther vertically than horizontally by a fairly significant margin. The attached images show the longest possible 5' reach in each direction with the grid set up as described.
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As an aside: square grids with a similar approach don't do what I'd like since those treat diagonal movement as equal to perpendicular movement (i.e. a diagonal line is the same length as moving horizontally and then vertically) in order to abide by 5e convention.

LordEntrails
June 21st, 2023, 15:13
What ruleset? I know in the 5E (and some other D&D rulesets) there is an option for alternate diagonal measurement which will can 1 square (5ft) for the first diagonal and 2 squares for the second. i.e. a 1.5 diagonal distance. That should solve your last mentioned issue.

Ilandria
June 23rd, 2023, 01:09
Yeah I think I might settle on that for now. It's not quite rounded raw distance, but it's at least close enough to be useable without making diagonals magically faster movement. Hopefully we can see rounded raw in the future, but this works for now - thank you!