a bear and ape, are classed as medium (25mm base) but the models come with a 50mm base which is large creature? when my druid changes to a bear it causes all sorts of problems in combat due to people not being able to manoeuvre around me without the difficult terrain rule for passing through allies. is it a one square creature and just ignore base size, seems right that it uses 4 squares when on all fours but the medium size has made me doubt this. thanks for any help.
Use the rules, not the minis. And both apes and black bears are size medium, so should only take one square. Maybe find a different mini for those animals. Or, you might be accidentally using the wrong mini. Black bears are medium, but most other bears — brown, polar, cave — are large.
As far as apes, a giant ape is huge (3x3) squares. But you may have a mini for some other ape variant that’s large.
So, I’d double check the mini against the creature you intend it to be. If it were me, I’d use a different mini that’s the correct size for the map, seeing a dog of a wolf in place of a bear may get annoying, but it’s easier to deal with than having something take up 4 times more space than it should.
Only a creatures size determines the number of squares a creature occupies, not its posture or the base of the figure representing it. In D&D you can use a grided map and figures or other tokens to help visualize what is going on but it is not required.
In older additions of D&D there was a distinction made between quadrupeds and bipeds when determining the space they occupy. But 5e has simplified it to just the creatures size determining the sausage they occupy.
A Black Bear is a medium creature but pretty much any other bear from a Brown Bear to a Cave Bear is a large creature. I couldn't find a large sized ape like beast, Apes as you mention are medium and Giant Apes are huge. The closest I found was the Barlgura demon, which looks a lot like an ape and is large sized.
thanks for the advice, i didn't realise brown bears were large(this is the type i change into) saw the black bear and assumed all bears were medium. clears it up thank you :-)
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a bear and ape, are classed as medium (25mm base) but the models come with a 50mm base which is large creature? when my druid changes to a bear it causes all sorts of problems in combat due to people not being able to manoeuvre around me without the difficult terrain rule for passing through allies. is it a one square creature and just ignore base size, seems right that it uses 4 squares when on all fours but the medium size has made me doubt this. thanks for any help.
Use the rules, not the minis. And both apes and black bears are size medium, so should only take one square. Maybe find a different mini for those animals.
Or, you might be accidentally using the wrong mini. Black bears are medium, but most other bears — brown, polar, cave — are large.
As far as apes, a giant ape is huge (3x3) squares. But you may have a mini for some other ape variant that’s large.
So, I’d double check the mini against the creature you intend it to be. If it were me, I’d use a different mini that’s the correct size for the map, seeing a dog of a wolf in place of a bear may get annoying, but it’s easier to deal with than having something take up 4 times more space than it should.
Only a creatures size determines the number of squares a creature occupies, not its posture or the base of the figure representing it. In D&D you can use a grided map and figures or other tokens to help visualize what is going on but it is not required.
In older additions of D&D there was a distinction made between quadrupeds and bipeds when determining the space they occupy. But 5e has simplified it to just the creatures size determining the sausage they occupy.
A Black Bear is a medium creature but pretty much any other bear from a Brown Bear to a Cave Bear is a large creature. I couldn't find a large sized ape like beast, Apes as you mention are medium and Giant Apes are huge. The closest I found was the Barlgura demon, which looks a lot like an ape and is large sized.
thanks for the advice, i didn't realise brown bears were large(this is the type i change into) saw the black bear and assumed all bears were medium. clears it up thank you :-)