Questions tagged [battle-map]
For questions about maps used for visualising a battlefield during combat, often with grids and used in combination with miniatures or tiles. Not to be confused with the [maps] tag, which is for maps of larger areas, like city or world maps.
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Are there methods for using non-gridbased and non-topdown maps for combat effectively?
My campaign is set within a giant's castle wherein the PCs are ratfolk running around within the walls. Instead of DND maps I've been using Home Decor and other real life shots of homes/fixtures to ...
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What are the specific legal pushing locations for Push Weapon Mastery and Repelling Blast?
If a player hits a creature with a weapon and is able to evoke the Push Weapon Mastery or a warlock cantrip and evoke Repelling Blast what would be the precise, legal pushing schemes? Hoping for ...
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Surrounding creatures in D&D
Under Creature Size in the 2014 release of the D&D Player's Handbook the following is stated under Creature Size (p. 191):
"[...] there’s a limit to the number of creatures that can surround ...
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Would Spike Growth affect multiple floors or inclines?
The description for Spike Growth says:
The ground in a 20-foot-radius Sphere centered on a point within range sprouts hard spikes and thorns. The area becomes Difficult
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Generating battle maps for printing
I would like to acquire or generate flip-maps for StarFinder, preferably with the grid already incorporated. I'm not trying to generate whole dungeons, just battle maps for scenarios.
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Which maps from Planescape: Turn of Fortune's Wheel would be most beneficial to have printed out in 1" grid scale?
I will be DMing a Planescape: Turn of Fortune's Wheel campaign soon. Maps in the book are small, and it would be hard to use them for tactical fights and puzzles. The party I will be DMing for likes ...
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Large creature movement around corners
I'm trying to properly account for the movement of a large creature in D&D 5e, playing on a square grid. The creature needs to move through a double-wide doorway and then move to its right, ...
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Can a vinyl mat be folded without damaging it?
I am going to be traveling by plane and was considering taking my vinyl mat along to run a short session of 5e on it. My problem is that it doesn't matter which way I roll it up, it's too long to fit ...
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How does the token method of templating spell areas work in practice?
Xanathar's Guide to Everything has a method to determine spell areas with tokens under Spellcasting, p. 87. It says that the method is "meant to make areas of effect tactile and fun":
Using ...
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What are the dimensions of ship tokens in ship on ship combat, via GoS, suppose to be?
I've had some conflicting information on whether a gargantuan ship from Ghosts of Saltmarsh is suppose to have a 20x20 token or an accurately dimensioned token, when used in ship v ship combat. For me ...
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Are there any published maps of Rhymanthiin and also 'The Path of Light' linking it to the Misty Forest?
I have found a fair amount of info and lore about Rhymanthiin, particularly its creation and even some descriptions of parts of it, including information about The Path of Light, but no maps or even ...
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Are single swarms of Large size completely shapeable in Pathfinder?
This D&D 3.5 question touches on this subject. Recently in a Pathfinder 1e game, it came to my attention that Paizo removed the second line clarifying that swarms were shapeable 10' creatures.
I ...
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What is the shape of fireball in 5-foot squares?
The DMG provides this rule for areas of effect on a grid (p. 251):
AREAS OF EFFECT
The area of effect of a spell, monster ability, or other
feature must be translated onto squares or hexes to
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How big is the area of effect for the Ice Knife spell's explosion, when the spell targets a Large creature?
The description of the ice knife spell states (emphasis mine):
You create a shard of ice and fling it at one creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target ...
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Do spells that push away or pull towards slide along diagonals?
Thorn Whip, for example, states:
you pull the creature up to 10 feet closer to you.
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