[4e]Burst area home rule

[Garwain]

In 4e the burst areas are squares. While convenient, I don't think it's esthetic. I introduces a little home rule to round the edges: If you take one step diagonal, your next 2 cannot be diagonal.

In play it tends to slow things down as the area isn't a simple square. But I still like it.

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[vasharanpaladin]

...Why not just use hexes?

[BarroomBard]

I just use the Front Mission rule: you can only count squares using right angles.

Do you adjust the spells in any other way to compensate for the loss of area? A burst five loses 24 target squares...

[DracoDei]

Or use the 3.X rules where diagonals count as 2 the first, third, fifth, etc etc you use them in a given count and 1 the even numbered times. (As an Engineering major this is one of my beefs with 4E). I recommend this for movement as well.