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      Thoughts and prayers? I’m thinking about kicking your ass and you better pray I don’t! My healing spells are only to ensure you don’t die before I get my point across!

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        And it also means that if they move another 10ft away from the cleric they will still be 30ft away…

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          Correct. It does break down a bit when you’re at the far corner of a cube, but honestly, it makes life much easier, since every square is just a square, no matter the direction.

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      Me at 15: I’m never going to need Chebyshev distance in real life.

      Also, while they simplified distance, they made finding you’re in range of Fireball much, much more complicated. You can’t just use the Pythagorean theorem to find out if the center of your square is in range. You have to use trig integrals to calculate how much of your square is inside the circle, and if it’s more than half.

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    You don’t need the Pythagorean theorem to know that the answer to this one is no. The range is 30 feet. They are more than 30 feet. The answer is no.

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      As a long-time DM, this sort of loosey-goosey handling of basic math in D&D is how Flight makes it into 1st level games… ie. “What could go wrong?” is the epitaph for the vast majority of games killed by shenanigans. 😜

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        Big fight in dire straits, but the group has been having a session that’s helped you flesh it all out more and they’ve been doing deeds in alignment with the cleric’s deity? Shenanigan. Maybe you pass a note to the cleric later to entice them with a quest. Troubling dreams, seek out a shrine, the whole party has the same dream.

        Same situation but they earned a bit of a walloping and should have the resources to win or the intellect to run? Shenanigannot.

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    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

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    I need to learn how to play dnd, this shit is gold!

    I’d do it just for the memes, but i would probably enjoy it for myself aswell.

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      If you’re looking for a group online the lfg subreddit is the place to go. Most people there are very welcoming of new players, and you can catch on quick through play.

      Sadly the LFG here on lemmy is lacking, I’ve been trying to get a group going for a while with no luck, so currently reddits the only real option for online dnd

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    I’ll see your Pythagorean Theorem range question and raise you a Feramt’s Last Theorem based magic puzzle/lock/trap (laughs in maths)

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      (laughs in maths)

      D&D math jokes? Let’s go!

      Q: What phases through stone and is equivalent to the axiom of choice?

      A: Xorn’s Lemma

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    I used to make CS:S maps in middle school and when I had to make a rail for stairs I felt like a genius whipping out Pathagora. I really havent had to use it after that butttttt I did use it in my real life at one point.

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      CAD made me…not lazy, but certainly changed my approach with stairs and railings.

      In my architectural design classes, when doing a stair layout, the most important factor, and really the only thing that mattered from a situational perspective, was the overall height. That, combined with values that didn’t change, drove the rest.

      Basically we had a defined max height for risers (7 3/4" off the top of my head) so you just divided that whole vertical distance in inches by 7.75 and add 1 to the answer (unless it came out perfectly even) and that’s your number of steps. Now take that overall height again and divide by number of steps, and you get the height of each riser. Set tread length as needed (usually 10-12") and now you can lay out the basics of the staircase with each step surface and riser face marked out.

      From there, it’s trivial to strike a line across the front corner of each step and offset it down for the back end of the stringer and up for a railing.

      No geometry, no Pythagoras, just some simple arithmetic and drafting skills. I would have thought this would be fairly common knowledge in my field but on one occasion, just Knowing how to do this, in an interview, got me a job offer.

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    In school you think trig is worthless and calculus is the big shit but in the real world it’s the other way around.

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    I watched Marry Andrews (the musical) as a kid and now I never forget how to find the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle.