This came up the other day. I'm assuming that, generally speaking, since a character is swinging three feet of steel on average, no more than one? Maybe two in a ten foot square?
When playing on a grid, you cannot end your movement in someone else's space (unless you have some feature that specifically says you can). As a result, typically, a single character can occupy a five foot square.
Usually one. But, with a large enough difference in size you can get two (my Rune Knight can enlarge up to huge and we have a kender that fights from the same square)
This came up the other day. I'm assuming that, generally speaking, since a character is swinging three feet of steel on average, no more than one? Maybe two in a ten foot square?
The number of creatures that can fit in a 5 foot square is never truly given anywhere. What the rules explain is that a creature's Space is the area in feet that it effectively controls in combat, not an expression of its physical dimensions. We know more than one medium creature can fit in the same 5 foot space when Moving Around Other Creatures own space.
Since you can't can't willingly end your move in any creature's space, my rule of thumb is that when it happen unwillingly, they're treated as if Squeezing into a Smaller Space
Space
A creature's space is the area in feet that it effectively controls in combat, not an expression of its physical dimensions. A typical Medium creature isn't 5 feet wide, for example, but it does control a space that wide. If a Medium hobgoblin stands in a 5‐foot-wide doorway, other creatures can't get through unless the hobgoblin lets them.
A creature's space also reflects the area it needs to fight effectively. For that reason, there's a limit to the number of creatures that can surround another creature in combat. Assuming Medium combatants, eight creatures can fit in a 5-foot radius around another one.
Because larger creatures take up more space, fewer of them can surround a creature. If four Large creatures crowd around a Medium or smaller one, there's little room for anyone else. In contrast, as many as twenty Medium creatures can surround a Gargantuan one.
This came up the other day. I'm assuming that, generally speaking, since a character is swinging three feet of steel on average, no more than one? Maybe two in a ten foot square?
When playing on a grid, you cannot end your movement in someone else's space (unless you have some feature that specifically says you can). As a result, typically, a single character can occupy a five foot square.
Usually one. But, with a large enough difference in size you can get two (my Rune Knight can enlarge up to huge and we have a kender that fights from the same square)
The number of creatures that can fit in a 5 foot square is never truly given anywhere. What the rules explain is that a creature's Space is the area in feet that it effectively controls in combat, not an expression of its physical dimensions. We know more than one medium creature can fit in the same 5 foot space when Moving Around Other Creatures own space.
Since you can't can't willingly end your move in any creature's space, my rule of thumb is that when it happen unwillingly, they're treated as if Squeezing into a Smaller Space
Thanks. This is close to how I handled it.