I would love to see d&d beyond have a metric option that automatically converts weights and distances to metric. As someone who doesn't live in Liberia, Myanmar or the USA, pounds and feet doesn't mean a lot me and I have trouble visualising the measurements and end up googling the conversion.
I would love to see d&d beyond have a metric option that automatically converts weights and distances to metric. As someone who doesn't live in Liberia, Myanmar or the USA, pounds and feet doesn't mean a lot me and I have trouble visualising the measurements and end up googling the conversion.
I like this idea but, don't you already have this issue with the books?
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I would love to see d&d beyond have a metric option that automatically converts weights and distances to metric. As someone who doesn't live in Liberia, Myanmar or the USA, pounds and feet doesn't mean a lot me and I have trouble visualising the measurements and end up googling the conversion.
I like this idea but, don't you already have this issue with the books?
Certainly do have that issue with the books! But that's the joy of a digital tool like d&d beyond, it doesn't have to be static.
A metric conversion sure COULD be possible and is something that people have been suggesting to Wizards of the Coast since the first edition of D&D!
This means that there are a lot of ideas across the internet on how to tackle this, mostly based around a standard movement of 10 meters per round (30 ft is approx 9.1m ).
I'm fairly sure that the license Curse have means they need to reproduce the books faithfully, so not sure how this would work.
I would love to see d&d beyond have a metric option that automatically converts weights and distances to metric. As someone who doesn't live in Liberia, Myanmar or the USA, pounds and feet doesn't mean a lot me and I have trouble visualising the measurements and end up googling the conversion.
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ModeratorThere is probably a combination of things that need to be considered including measurement systems and language support.
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D&D Beyond FoundersA metric conversion sure COULD be possible and is something that people have been suggesting to Wizards of the Coast since the first edition of D&D!
This means that there are a lot of ideas across the internet on how to tackle this, mostly based around a standard movement of 10 meters per round (30 ft is approx 9.1m ).
I'm fairly sure that the license Curse have means they need to reproduce the books faithfully, so not sure how this would work.
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