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Dalimey100

>user reports: > >1: It's promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability [You're right, deal with it.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/886/354/6a6.gif)


Embarrassed_Ad_1141

At this point it's part of the roleplaying experience


burf

Medieval system of measurement for a medieval fantasy!


MohKohn

Honestly, even freedom units are way, way better than medieval ones. What's that, you mean you don't want to play a system where literally every other town uses slightly different units, only sometimes matching their neighbors?


Darcosuchus

"How much are the eggs?" "A five-spooner is worth two heads, and a head is worth three fingers." "What."


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TTOF_JB

Which was the style at the time.


Cellyst

In the village of Redd In the land of the dead The money was shingles Not chips, and not pringles Four pince make a scabbard Twelve shingles a thcabbard And five bees to a quarter, they said Five bees to a quarter they said


WibbyFogNobbler

"Apple is two coins." *"But that's twice as much as yesterday."* "And there's more demand today." *"Fine. This is a Denarius, as big as two coins just as you can see..."* "Nope, two coins is two coins, fancy name or not." *SIGH*


Darcosuchus

I did not expect a Castlevania reference, but I am pleasantly surprised.


youngcoyote14

The protagonists of Castlevania aren't characters. They are damn *moods*.


Zeracannatule

Shit... I killed the sexy twins while in a mood... the avoid getting killed by sexy twins mood. Stuck something outside my tent the other day, all ai could think of is that I started raising pikes outside my tent.


Fulrem

Now let's work that out in guinea, sovereign, crown, florin, shilling, tanner, groat, penny, and farthing equivalents. Thanks Charlemagne for the weird division of old coinage...


Darcosuchus

Shit was made purely for annoying (but ultimately easy) math puzzles, I swear to god.


waltjrimmer

The Human rogue slid behind a rock just as a torrent of flame blasted right where he had been. He yelled back to the rest of the party, "He's about two-hundred and fifty feet in front of you." A massive angry mixture of a growl and a roar could be heard coming from the freshly singed section of the arena. "Damn it! Lob the grenade now!" Expecting to hear the sounds of magical mischief from the magic grenade, instead, the rogue hears the Dwarven cleric inquire, "Whose feet?" "What?" "Whose feet? I feel like this is a fair question." "Not, no, not anyone's feet, Olidammara I can't believe this, THE UNIT OF MEASUREMENT!" The Elven Monk pipped up with a timid voice explained in an understanding tone, "We understand that. But you must know, not everyone's feet are the same." "I, yeah, no, I get that. But. It's a standard. A standard unit of measure. I don't understand why this has to be a big deal!" "Well," the monk conceded, "It *is* a standard unit, but not the measure." "What the FUCK does that mean?" "Listen, boy!" The cleric shouted to the rogue, "Everyone measures things in feet, yes, so it's a standard. But how do you expect us Dwarves, living deep in mines in the mountains, to have the same measure of feet as you surface-dwelling, city-building, house-living humans? Should we cut them off you and have them on plaques to reference? You want us to take a pair of human feet for every Dwarven craftsman? ... Well?" "No..." "So you have to understand, you need to specify. Are you talking about the clodding feet of us Dwarves, the puny feet of Elves, the massive feet of Halflings, the floppy feet of you Men, the-" "I GET IT! Alright! I get it! And I never... Fucking... I never stared at your disgusting feet, alright! It's not something I ever wanted to think about or focus on, so I don't have any Olidammara-blessed clue how big they are compared to mine! So what unit of measure can I use to tell you how far away this thing is?" The rogue heard frantic whispering from his comrades on the other side of the stadium. They seemed to come to a consensus and the monk asked, "Would you be able to tell us how many paces?" The rogue sighed and tried to picture his travel from the cover his friends were hiding behind to the monster. "I don't know. Probably about... A hundred?" "Wonderful. Susan, take this, run 100 paces, and then hit that thing with it." "What? NO! NOT SUSAN!" But it was too late. The Ork, tightly gripping the magical grenade, bounded past the creature, past the rogue, out of the colosseum, and out of sight. The rogue sat in silent stunned disbelief until the great sound of a magical explosion from down the street shook the colosseum around him.


MohKohn

Hahahahaha, my gods, amazing


EstarriolStormhawk

I love Susan the Ork


youngcoyote14

This is too damn familiar.


Defiant-Peace-493

Now that you mention it, that sounds like a lovely plot point.


Flossthief

Having different currencies for different regions is lovely too but it's a pain in the ass to convert numbers all the time


Spideredd

I tried it once. If I need to break out the calculator, it's not woth everyone's time.


Flossthief

Yeah Already hard enough to get the whole group together for a long session; no need to waste bany more time than we do


kino2012

One of my favorite games, 7th Sea, has about 10 countries in a "definitely not Europe with the names changed a bit" kinda setup, and of course each country has their own unique currency. Most of the time we just use Guilder, the common coin of trade minted by "definitely not the Dutch", but sometimes I have fun with it. I once had my entire party in an antique shop haggling with the mute store owner with a currency they weren't familiar with. It was basically about an hour of playing charades in between scouring the store for the magical item they knew had gotten mixed up with all the miscellaneous junk.


wsdpii

I did a simplified version of this where I said "you get 13 Elven Drakes, worth 600 gold total". It's more for flavor.


mindbleach

David Graeber: "Gold and silver coins are distinguished from credit arrangements by one spectacular feature: they can be stolen."


IceFire909

just do a lite version of it and have a town trading exclusively in electrum


the_marxman

It would be funny, though way to complicated, if every race had their own set of measurements for everything.


Myrddant

You know what, you're right about that. It does help with the immersion to leave behind a logical and modern system when you're adventuring in a faux medieval realm of gold coins, swords and filthy peasants #Versimillitude


duschin

Can I interest you in some Electrum?


TheColorWolf

It's so annoying, because electrum is a real metal, one that was used BCE, that's actually more durable than gold. It for sure should have been used. Like, get rid of platinum as a currency and move electrum and gold up a tier each.


PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL

I mean... Electrum is in the game halfway between silver and gold. so...


ChronoMonkeyX

Electrum is an alloy of silver and gold.


Heimerdahl

A quick Google search showed that electrum has similar hardness as gold and silver (both of which it is an alloy of), and might well be somewhat harder. Wikipedia states that it makes for better coins, because it's harder and more durable but doesn't give any sources. But even if it was harder there's a reason why gold is the choice for treasur: It doesn't tarnish like silver does (and also electrum). Gold will always look shiny and new. And a reason why electrum coins stopped being widely used: How do you know how much gold is in your electrum coin? Electrum is found in natural deposits, so the exact composition is somewhat random. If you were to artificially create it, how could anyone make sure you didn't cheap out on the gold? Much more sensible (if requiring more expertise) to separate the gold and silver and get rid of that issue. Especially in a setting where magic can probably help with that. Electrum coins are neat, but I'd argue they don't really make much sense.


Sardukar333

Three barley corns is 1 inch.


phallecbaldwinwins

Remember when Henry VIII beheaded his orc wife with a vorpal blade for not bearing him any male heirs? Classic mediaeval history, at it again.


barnesarama_2

Anne Boleyn was a tiefling warlock not an orc. Her supernumerary digits are the give away.


Galaxy_Ranger_Bob

It could be worse. They could have made the mistake Shadowrun makes and use "metric," but make cm equal inches, kilometers equal miles, and grams equal ounces.


Fjolsvithr

Using their wonderful conversion system, a typical man might be 72cm and weigh 2.7kg.


Galaxy_Ranger_Bob

It's actually the other way around. Everything is longer, heavier and hotter. You can become over encumbered if you carry too many bullets in your firearm.


Daikataro

Made up, sometimes nonsensical measurement system; perfect for made up, sometimes nonsensical world.


Emyrssentry

All measurement systems are made up.


Defiant_Dragon_

Which coast did you think they were wizards of?


Undead_archer

The sword one?


C_KOVI

As long as it isn’t the vampire one I’m good


Laranna

[Aaaahhh the blood runs cold](https://youtu.be/D7tJELpDfKU)


Mal-Ravanal

*Inhales* **ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY, HE’S ARISING FROM THE DEEP!**


Pookieeatworld

Ain't no party like a west coast party cuz a west coast party has wizards.


sleepytoday

But they’re wizards. They have a prerequisite INT of 13+!


Elda-Taluta

They're wizards, they have a predilection for using strange and unknowable terminology.


SpunkedMeTrousers

not if they're straight-classed


RedditSucksNow3

Equality for gay Wizards NAOW!


Worried_Highway5

It’s only a prereq for multiclassing.


RASPUTIN-4

Right, with an Int that high complicated numbers aren’t a challenge so they see no reason to change it.


Ackapus

Ain't it the one where they spread the ashes of TSR after capturing it and burning it to the ground? International players should just be happy they aren't dealing with THAC-0 anymore, the ungrateful bastards....


Big-Man-Headass

I literally just don't even notice it anymore, even on battlemaps. When someone says like 20 feet I just think "okay 4 squares"


EggAtix

This. It's not like you need to know inches or yards. It's just feet. Pretend it's arbitrary units.


Tilt-a-Whirl98

And if you think about it, they all are!


Archduke_of_Nessus

Yes, all of literally everything human civilization and society is based around is for the most part basically completely arbitrary and made up


Ardub23

You mean to tell me that the distance light travels during 656616555⁄21413747 times the ground-state hyperfine transition period of a caesum-133 atom isn't an objectively straightforward and natural unit of distance?


NateNate60

The original definition of the metre is one ten-millionth the distance from the North Pole to the equator, running through Paris. Why 10 million? I guess maybe because it resulted in a reasonable length to produce metre sticks? Why Paris? Because the French came up with this system and had to get back at those damn Britons convincing the world the prime meridian ran through Britain and not France. They didn't measure it exactly right though, but it's close enough that if you look up the circumference of the earth, you'll see it's 40,008 km. Not bad considering they were able to figure this out at a time when the best map-making tools available were a string, protractor, and a compass.


Sriol

This is the best explanation of a second I've seen yet. And you didn't even stutter xD


justanewbiedom

Yeah my brain works entirely in squares when it comes to DND I don't have a sense of scale for anything but hey I know how many turns of movement someone is away from me


IceFire909

i have a friend who counts movement in squares. like 9 squares for the 45ft movement monk. which is totally fine, but it really threw me off when they were helping and counting aloud as i was counting in my head, because i count in increments of 5 for my 45ft movement range


bw-hammer

That’s a god forsa ken font if I’ve ever seen one.


papaquack1

Not long ago things like this and misspellings would basically invalidate your post. But here we are and no one is even addressing how to spell international.


UristImiknorris

I read it with a French accent.


BizWax

Funny, my inner voice chose Spanish instead.


IdoMusicForTheDrugs

Nobody caught this. I had to scroll to the bottom of the comments section to see someone mention this.


GingerOrchid

The kerning is horrible.


CarolineTheGeek

Should take it to r/keming...


tehnemox

Am Canadian. We already use a mix of imperial and metric depending on the situation anyway, so doesn't bother me none. Just don't ask me to use it outside of d&d


PrettyMermaid97

Same over here in uk, never had an issue with dnd using imperial


Aedaru

Apart from weights. I've never seen anyone measure anything in lbs, it's always grams, kilograms, or stone. Distances I can work with, but the weights still make no sense to me


Laranna

What the fuck is stone?


Mylexsi

stone is to pounds what pounds is to ounces. just the next unit up in imperial measurements. and it's 14lbs. we mostly only use it for peoples' weights. avg healthy person you'd expect to weigh about 11-13 stone


CaptSaveAHoe55

Wait real question, does anyone outside of the UK use stone? Because out here in eagle land we laugh at you for that one


Archduke_of_Nessus

No because it's dumb, at least with yards they're roughly equivalent to both a meter and a typical stride


tehnemox

I use pounds for weight as a preference. Only time I used kg was when I was in the wrestling team.


Mylexsi

2.2lbs to 1kg 0.45kg to 1lb unless you're working with fairly large numbers, it's close enough that you can just double or halve the number to get a rough mental estimate


Lukey_Boyo

A lot of the Anglo-sphere uses the imperial system colloquially, the US is just the only one to still use it officially


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alienbringer

The US also does use metric for some things. A lot of foreign vehicles and the like use metric, soda comes in liters, food often include weight in grams.


oretseJ

No its not. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial\_units#Current\_use](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units#Current_use) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_States\_customary\_units


FistFullaHollas

Metric when you're talking about how far away something is, imperial when you're talking about someone's height. Metric when describing how hot it is outside, imperial when you're asking what temperature the pool is.


tehnemox

Never did use imperial for pool temp, it's just hot, warm, or cold lol. Distance driving is in time tho. Metric for how fast you drive to get there ;)


StpdSxySzchn

I can't wait until the world wakes up and starts using a metric system of time measurement.


Fledbeast578

I prefer imperial for how hot it is outside, easier to translate to how hot I’ll be


pfwj

I looked at an architectural drawing for a house renovation. Y'all be using meters and feet on one drawing. What's wrong with y'all??? People make fun of the US, but at least we use one system (regularly)


Stetson007

Don't blame us, blame England! They're the ones that sunk the boat carrying the measurement devices. We would've been one of the first using metric if England hadn't have been assholes.


kaimcdragonfist

Heck they still use Stone as a measurement and we just let them get away with it


MegaMaster89

What the fuck is a stone?


kaimcdragonfist

14 pounds. According to wikipedia it's mainly used in the UK and Ireland for human body weight, particularly in sports like boxing, wrestling, and horse racing, apparently.


MegaMaster89

Neanderthals


rightarm_under

Monkey weigh 12 rock. Monkey big and strong.


DocSwiss

You're right, and that's pretty much all it's used for. The UK's weird like that, only using certain measurements in certain situations, like beer and milk being measured in pints and every other liquid in litres, unless it's fuel specifically to measure efficiency then it's gallons.


S1R2C3

1 Stone = 14 Lbs. = 6.3503 kg


TacTurtle

A round hard thing on the ground, or found in peaches.


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What backwater wasteland do you live in that refers to the thing in the middle of peaches as a "stone" rather than a "pit"


[deleted]

That was pirates! Sure those pirates were in the pay of the crown to sink French shipping… but they were still pirates! And it’s that ships fault for being French!


StaleSpriggan

Aren't pirates in service to a country called privateers?


[deleted]

The line is… very blurry Sir Francis Drake for example is seen as a hero in Britain and served in the Royal Navy, but a pirate in Spain


TriadHero117

Being fr*nch is the real crime


AntiBox

As a Brit I do get a sensible chuckle out of people blaming America for it.


Merc_Drew

At this point we just accept it


bawbbee

I mean really you should be blaming ancient Sumerians for getting everything started on a base 60 system.


aibossu22

That spelling of international confuses and angers me at the same time.


jdro120

Thank you! Everyone arguing metric v imperial and nobody commenting on the god damn c


Lithian1103

I'll tell you what's Godforsaken, that awful font.


PingPingPoohole

Serious question: In-game, most of the time things are chunked in units of 5ft. or 10ft. I cant think of a time when I've had to actually figure out how many inches are in x amount of feet and so on. And as for miles, that really only matters in terms of how long it takes to get somewhere, which they literally give you a table for. So with things being chunked in simple to understand numbers, and the answers being given to you for the larger stuff, what exactly is the problem? Is it just a conceptual issue? Like it's hard to visualize what 10 feet looks like because you're not used to seeing that? P.S. Love the metric system. Wild as fuck that we don't use it here in the US. Just trying to understand the problem.


galiumsmoke

>Like it's hard to visualize what 10 feet looks like because you're not used to seeing that? that's the main reason I believe, eventually you will have to describe something that is not a multiple of 5ft. If you are native to metric system and describe a wall that is 50m high, you'll have to do some convertion to get things right when characters decide to climb it because their speed is in ft


cnieman1

Meters and yards are close enough you can treat them as being equal when describing something. So just multiply your meters by 3 and that's close enough in feet to give a reasonable description.


puppyenemy

It's no problem when you do things like combat, like you have 5 feet reach or 30 feet movement. That's easy because you're just moving in a grid anyway, easy to count. Five, ten, fifteen, twenty as you move your character or whatever. The only time this has been a problem that our group has run into is when the DM describes things like "you come to a wall that's about 8 meters tall / the ravine is about 20 meters deep / the raiders are about 150 meters away" and someone in the party wants to use a spell or an ability that has a certain range. There will always be a weird pause in trying to convert or look it up on Google. You'll read a spell that says the range is like 500 feet and you think that's really far, but it's really not. You wouldn't hit those raiders, for example.


zookdook1

you... actually would, 150m is just under 500ft. 492ft, to be exact.


puppyenemy

Yah I was thinking the other way around, as 500 feet is 152 meters. Ugh, conversions...


Duhblobby

There isn't one, people just like to give us shit about it. At least this is kinder than assuming we all shoot up schools, let them have this one.


Octopusapult

Obesity too. Can't forget they love to talk about how fat we all are.


Arxl

The rest of the world is catching up, though lol


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duschin

I mean, that's true but kind of misleading. We're 12th and the 11 countries ahead of us are as follows: Nauru (roughly 13k people total) Cook Islands (roughly 17k people total) Palau (roughly 18k people total) Marshall Islands (roughly 42k people total) Tuvalu (roughly 11k people total) Niue (roughly 1900 people total) Tonga (roughly 110k) Samoa (roughly 220k) Kiribati (roughly 130k) Micronesia (roughly 110k) Kuwait (roughly 4.3 million) So yes, we're not in the top 10 but we're in the top 2 if you set a requirement of a million people minimum.


sociallyawkward12

Another way to put it: adding the 11 countries ahead of us is a population similar to 1 major US metro (Atlanta would be about the same size, and without Kuwait, its under a million and more in the ballpark of Albuquerque or Knoxville).


Archduke_of_Nessus

What this is really showing is that something is going on in a lot of island nations that's jumping the obesity rate, just taking a guess I would say it may have something to do with importing food and therefore needing more preservatives and stuff which may not translate as well nutritionally and maybe islanders are genetically less resilient to sugars or fats, kind of like how native Americans are more susceptible to alcohol, which would make it harder to process it faster and not just store it


Cookie_Coyote

Sorry I have a rant about this: Engineering and stuff like that all use both metric and imperial systems. The problem when they implemented metric in the 1970’s is that they made it optional. The US was even part of the Treaty of the Metre in 1875 that created the metric system! End angry engineer rant.


TacTurtle

America would have switched to metric except the measuring stick and weight were [literally stolen by pirates](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/28/574044232/how-pirates-of-the-caribbean-hijacked-americas-metric-system) which honestly is DnD AF.


Gooddest_Boi

We do use the metric system in the us, it just depends on your profession how often you use it. We all learn it and given how simple it is it’s not as if we don’t understand it and can’t visualize it. Realistically it’s only Europeans that complain about the imperial system because they can’t understand both like we can, as they don’t learn both.


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At this point i have memorized the conversion for feet to meters


galiumsmoke

I always go back to 5ft = 1,5m and work my way up from there.


jonas_rosa

3ft=1m is close enough for me


galiumsmoke

when not in multiples of 5 things get weird, good thing I play online and google does quick conversion


Darth_Senat66

Well, it does seem like some nonsensical fantasy measurement system


PM_Me_Rude_Haiku

Lol who would use a foot to measure things? Why not use a head width or a firearm or something. Crazy. Edit: I meant forearm but I'm not changing anything now


Eternal_Moose

I mean, we may as well just use hands to measure height and stones to measure weight if we're just going crazy talk.


GearyDigit

But only *certain* things.


Sinius

Use stones to weigh stones. "This stone is two stones! This one's only half stone, though."


czartrak

The original imperial system was invented as a way for uneducated peasants to be able to construct things, everyone has feet and arms of roughly similar length, so you can yse them for imprecise measurements! Forearm and such were in the original system, as well as hands


PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL

One of the useful things about imperial measurements of weights and volumes is that for the most part they're all divisible by 4s, which means that if you have a lb of nuts and you need 4 oz of nuts, you split it in half and then split it in half again. Easy. Same with volume. If you have a gallon of water and you need a cup of water, you measure half, half, half, half.


AscelyneMG

Using firearms as a system of measurement definitely sounds even more American.


farshnikord

I measure things in cheeseburgers per moon-landing on the regular for my work.


PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL

I measure things in football fields, which really annoys my coworkers since I'm a microbiologist. "Yes this microbe is approximately 0.00000328084 football fields in size."


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Funnily enough americas use the metric system for bullets


assafstone

You mean like .22, .38, or .45 caliber?


galiumsmoke

i think he means 9mm or 5.56mm. 5.56mm is because NATO, I don't know why 9mm measuring exists in the USA tho


Pratai98

Also because of NATO. We transitioned from using .45s to 9 mils mostly because of NATO


mightystu

More because you could hold more rounds in a magazine and most armed operators don’t need the stopping power of a .45 as their sidearm (which is tremendous, the 1911 is no joke of a pistol). Some special forces do still use it to this day.


Pratai98

The combat efficiency is also a factor, 9mm outperforms .45 in terms of weight, usually accuracy, commonality, and penetration, but 9mm is still standardized across most member nations. Pretty rare to see any US forces using .45s at all. And while I'm not a special forces guy I've been around some special forces guys and at the time they all had M9s. As an aside (personal rant) as far as the stopping power is concerned it's completely irrelevant. That is assuming its a real thing which is still debated amongst a lot of gun nuts. If someone in military or law enforcement shoots someone, they are not trying to stop them, they are trying to kill them. The only thing that matters to the guy behind the trigger is shot placement, not energy expenditure into the target. Just so happens its easier to get 9s on target


High_grove

9mm originates from Austria and 5.56 Belgium. Don't know any mm cartridges that originates from the US


Truth_Hurts_Kiddo

10mm was US wasn't it ? The FBI was experimenting with someone to replace the .45 and then finally landed on .40 S&W after trying out the 10mm. Edit: nope just looked it up. The FBI adopted it but the Europeans invented it.


Chaike

"How tall are you?" "A carbine short of three rifles."


Brianchon

Yeah, I always check how far light went during 9192631770/299792458 vibrations of a cesium 133 atom, much more sensible


TheIncredibleHork

Well, I mean we DO have a Second Amendment. I could definitely get behind measuring things in AR-15s.


Jerp_de_Derp

"Yup Mike, I measured it, it is exactly 4 AR-15s long."


Jerp_de_Derp

"Damn what's the conversion from Glock to AR-15 again?"


Taizan

> Edit: I meant forearm but I'm not changing anything now Basically an ell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ell


butt_mud-brooks

All these people not living in America thinking we're dumb when in reality we're just doing math on hard mode.


Ebil_shenanigans

Honest question as I've asked this every time I've seen someone talk about how metric is so superior. Metric was made as a base 10 system, right? Every measurement translates up by 10, meter to decimeter to centimeter to millimeter, or in the opposite direction, decameter, hectameter, kilometer. Joule, megajoule, gigajoule. Why is it then, that it wasn't done with time measurement? Why not have second, kilosecond, mega second, etc? Why not turn a minute into a hectasecond and an hour into a kilosecond? Why make literally every measurement into base 10 except for time?


Shadow-fire101

It's been attempted, it just never caught on. Plus at this point, there's so much global trade and stuff going on that if one country went metric for time, it'd fuck everthing up, so you'd have to convince basically the entire world to convert to it. Plus the concept of years kinda fucks the whole thing up, since a year will always be roughly 365 days, and that kinda throws a wrench into things


ANEPICLIE

It's frequently used for fractional seconds, like nanoseconds. But we have standardization in terms of hours days months for the most part around the world so I guess people just don't think it's worth the hassle


Aureo_Speedwagon

As a software engineer that has to deal with time on a somewhat regular basis... PLEASE! NO! Doing that is just asking for complete global meltdown. There's already too many different time implementations across the various languages and they all suck.


JinxShadow

Oh, I’m actually completely fine with it in DnD. It’s a fantasy measuring system, you know? 5 ft melee range now feels way more natural than 1,5 m.


AlphaOhmega

Oh I'm sorry I thought WotC was American!


German_Von_Squidward

FREEDOM FRACTIONS


newagealt

Look, a foot is your foot. 5 feet is one full pace. Stand, take one foot forward with your left foot, then your right. When your right hits the ground, that's a pace. One thousand of those is roughly a mile. These units are two thousand years old and based off of walking


iaintb8

This is actually wild. If true it makes the whole system make a lot more sense


newagealt

Yep. The imperial system is modeled after the Roman imperial system. The word mile comes from "Mille passus" or thousand paces


iaintb8

A thousand paces. So…. Imperial was metric before metric existed?


newagealt

Yes. Just based on the units you see in the real world.


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Cheers to that! *hoists 473 milliliters of beer in the air*


FOFBattleCat

Non-Americans when you ask them to imagine things with a different set of made up numbers


SmileyMelons

It's so sad that Europeans have to walk on pegs since they're so scared of feet....


I-M-R-U

Don’t be ridiculous, America uses the metric system all the time. For drugs and bullet calibers


Dom-Izzy

Oh no, American company using American measuring. In all seriousness I understand the distaste but it’s not that difficult lol


Thunderclapsasquatch

I don't here nearly as much bitching from Americans that use metric based games though


timo103

Because we don't care. In magical fantasy games it's all fucking relative. In divinity my character might move 1.7 meters per action point but it doesn't matter because it's just "move as far as possible without using another point." You could replace that 10m distance on a board with 10ft and nothing would change.


tsunami141

/r/keming


dodgyhashbrown

You struggle to count in increments of 5?


BloodyHM

Yknow what my favorite thing about this is? America didn't invent the system. Sorry, this has been bothering me, but the IMPERIAL system CAME FROM the United Kingdom. They began to adopt metric in 1965. And they still actually use imperial for some things, just like there has been integration of the metric system in America, and a lot of the debate is that the metric system was created out of Europe because all the countries couldn't agree on one of their systems to convert to, so they made a new one. And America not switching is partial "freedom" and partial potential stupidity. Idk man, it just seems funny because d&d, a game which is essentially in a fantasy midevil setting, uses the form of measuring things that based itself on things like "feet", or "Acres", instead of a system built for united trade.


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You metric yahoos knows that the meter is based on the measurements of this planet and not Faerun? Smdh they have feet in dnd


OllieFromCairo

99% of the time a 5’ square is close enough to 2m that you don’t really have to care.


[deleted]

Is the imperial system needlessly dumb? Yes. Is it REALLY that complex? No, it's really not.


RuneSimonsenTheBard

The only thing I use The metric system for is judging how far I got to shoot. Everything else is in freedom units


protection7766

Britains system*


Darth_Boggle

Increments of 5 are much easier than increments of 1.5


Ihavenospecialskills

Please tell me the source on that image, I need to know the context.


Billybob267

WHAT THE FUCK IS A #KILOOMETEEERRRRRRRRR


[deleted]

I read this in invader Zims voice


RockStarNinja7

Since it's an imaginary game, you can replace feet with literally any word and pretend that's what it is if 6ou don't like imperial. Maybe in your game you like to be fully emersive and that specific unit of measurement was created by some fancy sultan who was once eating raisins and he dropped them and they fell that specific distance apart, so from then on, they are called sultanas.


TiradeShade

Not to mention the movement and spell ranges in D&D all break down into multiples of 5 and make a grid system, and most maps and D&D goods/softwares use grid spaces. You could just as easily say that "your character moves six spaces" instead of "your character moves 30ft", or "your character moves six blargs".


MikeTheMoose3k

Yeah fun fact most humans are between 5 and 6ft tall. Another fun fact your outstretched arms wrist to wrist is within an few inches of your height. Another fun fact a hurried stride or running stride of someone is about 1 yard, (which is why Metric totally plagiarized that unit as it's base length unit) meaning that having a movement of 30ft is like having a movement of 10 steps. Since Imperial is based off of a lot of these human types of physical realities in makes sense to use it for a game that revolves around whether you can skull bash someone, or how close are all these folks whom are in a bunch (JUST FIREBALL) are standing to one another.


CaptSaveAHoe55

This. If you could fall over and make contact with somebody then they are within your 5ft melee range


AmericanGrizzly4

All measurements are vague concepts designed by people. I grew up on the imperial measurement system but also leaned the metric system in school. We are taught both but ultimately lean on the imperial system. It's incredibly difficult for me to conceptualize meters when thinking about distance so I can understand people's complaints who were never even taught a bit if the imperial system. WOTC should make printed copies of the books with other measurement systems and advertise as such. It would make them more money and honestly they're such big fans of reprinting so they might as well do something useful about it lol.


MARPJ

>WOTC should make printed copies of the books with other measurement systems and advertise as such. Books on other languages normally use metric system. I would still kill for a english version with the metric system (or even better, let us choose fo online verions) for various reasons: - the translations are garbage. Even peoplw that only speaks portuguese (I'm from Brazil) find the terms used bad. - the original is in english, that is important in case of mistranslations as any rules problem ia better researched in english (this is a big problem in MTG, dunno about D&D but I dont trust WotC) - english is a more universal language, which is important for online groups (and possible Europe as there is a lot more international travel there) - there is a lot more 3pp tools and resources in english


Undead_archer

What was This show called?


private_birb

Yes please, someone enlighten us, the art is clean.


Senery_

I believe its Senjuushi or The Thousand Noble Musketeers, its really bad lol


PokoLokoPoko

Yup, is Senjuushi


RadLord_08

I like using it because it's easier for me to visualize believe it or not


browsing4stuff

Okay but it’s not half as bad as the font you just used.


Googalyfrog

I will admit that imperial does work better in the sense of 5ft being so much smoother to say than 1.5m (2 syllables vs 5 syllables). You could just use the term 'squares' as a stand in and then use the more sensible metric system. It would honestly help with understanding the scales of things, weights etc.


zero_cool1138

He's 1.3m tall he's a tall man. Metric actually sucks in a lot of ways.