There’s no requirement to snap a spell to a grid. The line can go in any direction from you, so it can affect things that are side by side, as long as they’re both in the 5-foot-wide line.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) September 11, 2020
There’s no requirement to snap a spell to a grid. The line can go in any direction from you, so it can affect things that are side by side, as long as they’re both in the 5-foot-wide line.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) September 11, 2020
DMs doing it consistently one way or another is more important that they specific ruling I think. This works fine. I have it effect a single 5ft square in a line, if player wanted to split targets I’d allow but give half/zero damage saves. You are in fact free to do it however you like. 🙂
I’m just saying that the second example picture is a valid use of lightning bolt. As would be starting it from a corner, or 3/4 of the way along one of the origin square’s sides and then extending out at a 27 degree angle.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) September 11, 2020
A weird one that comes up for me is the darkness spell on an object carried by a medium sice creature. Roll20 let’s me give my token a 20 ft radius aura, but that increases the total diameter by 5 ft. I should use one of the corners of my occupied space as origin, right? That's probably a judgement best made by the DM/table as a whole how you want to handle it.
Personally I'd go with whatever is easiest to manage on whatever medium you're using.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) September 11, 2020
The easiest for the medium is to ignore intersections and say the center of the effect is the center of the creature and giving the creature an aura w/ 17.5 ft radius
That’s the right solution for me. I was looking for the “correct” solution out of curiosity 😛 I don't have a "correct" solution for you. It's a subjective thing.
MY correct solution is to ignore grids entirely, and use measurements to check ranges if you still want that mini/map positioning.
Best campaigns I played it were minis/maps, ignoring grid, using measures.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) September 11, 2020
Again I’m curious, in the case of a carried object which creates a spherical AoE (like Darkness), where do you measure from?
Seems like you’re doing what I’m doing and measuring from the center of the creature even if that center isn’t an intersection. Probably just from the creature model itself (Easy assuming Medium or smaller).I'm not worried about a little extra range afforded by the base/space of the creature. That's so rarely going to matter in any significant fashion that it's not worth the time to fiddle with it.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) September 11, 2020
Measuring from the center (or rough center depending if you're doing it by hand) also works just as well with the same logic. I don't like snapping points of origin and effects to grid lines and intersections. That creates too much wonkiness and bizarre "optimized" positioning.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) September 11, 2020
