I'm doubtful though, for two reasons. It's a substantial undertaking (every spell, monster and many items would have to be altered to make it fit - not just the core rules), and it's also atmospheric thing, using archaic measurements. Saying metres instantly gives a modern feel to it, whereas feet gives a tone more harmonious to the fairytale past. The snark in me wants to say they'll measure distances in Hobbit-toes before going metric, but I won't go there ;)
As I mentioned, nobody has said anything (to my knowledge), but it's not something I'd expect.
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As has been said, there’s no word on this, but I would take inspiration from Baldur’s Gate III and just kludge it a bit to 5 feet = 1.5 metres. It’s pretty close to a true conversion, and gives nice round numbers for pretty much everything. Will you have to do it yourself? Yes, but at least the maths isn’t hard, and if you’re anything like me, you’ll finally be able to easily estimate distances and speeds since the units will relate to how you think about the actual world. (I don’t explicitly do this in the game I’m running, but I do it in my head all the time.)
I have indeed taken inspiration from bg3 to go metric, was wondering if wotc is the same!
To me it would seem relatively east to write 60ft (20m) and 1lb (0.5kg) throughout the new books to support both measures without the need for conversion every time.
It would seem to; but I don't believe we're seeing any indication of providing metric measurements in the One D&D Playtest materials offered so far. If they were thinking of presenting metric, I think we'd have seen it by now.
Anyone know if WOTC will be releasing an international english (metric) verison of the next batch of core rulebooks?
Nothing has been said.
I'm doubtful though, for two reasons. It's a substantial undertaking (every spell, monster and many items would have to be altered to make it fit - not just the core rules), and it's also atmospheric thing, using archaic measurements. Saying metres instantly gives a modern feel to it, whereas feet gives a tone more harmonious to the fairytale past. The snark in me wants to say they'll measure distances in Hobbit-toes before going metric, but I won't go there ;)
As I mentioned, nobody has said anything (to my knowledge), but it's not something I'd expect.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
As has been said, there’s no word on this, but I would take inspiration from Baldur’s Gate III and just kludge it a bit to 5 feet = 1.5 metres. It’s pretty close to a true conversion, and gives nice round numbers for pretty much everything. Will you have to do it yourself? Yes, but at least the maths isn’t hard, and if you’re anything like me, you’ll finally be able to easily estimate distances and speeds since the units will relate to how you think about the actual world. (I don’t explicitly do this in the game I’m running, but I do it in my head all the time.)
I have indeed taken inspiration from bg3 to go metric, was wondering if wotc is the same!
To me it would seem relatively east to write 60ft (20m) and 1lb (0.5kg) throughout the new books to support both measures without the need for conversion every time.
It would seem to; but I don't believe we're seeing any indication of providing metric measurements in the One D&D Playtest materials offered so far. If they were thinking of presenting metric, I think we'd have seen it by now.
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