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Enchanted Realms Rulebook

 
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 Movement

Movement

Every creature is assigned a movement rate, which measures the distance one is permitted to cover during one round. Of course, terrain, skills, conditions and magic can all affect that value, but the basic concept of movement is fairly straight forward. Moreover, the player does not have to make individual hex movements, but rather the player will define the desired target, be it an opponent or location, after which the API in Roll20 will manage the movement.

ConditionPenalty
Mounting or dismounting a steed-25 feet
  — 
Mount/Dismount with mountsmanship
-10 feet
Mounting or dismounting a flying creature1 action
Pick up item from table or ground-10 feet and item retrieval requires an action
Ready shield without shield-use skill-10 feet
Standing from prone (reaction)½ species standard
Standing from prone (action)On initiative; no penalty
Unshealth/switch weapon-10 feet

Due to this change of movement and location, this will effect when and how actions can be used. First and foremost, if moving to engage an opponent in melee and one’s turn comes up but the target has not been reached, then the player must choose what to do. If there are alternate targets in adjacent hexes, an attack could be chosen for one of those. Otherwise, the player would have to change or hold the action. Either way, a d4 delay would be added to the initiative. Of course, one should remember that while this impacts and possibly limits some options, the same rules apply to the bad guys too. Further, it will help to discern the demeanor of the battlefield, like when a monster breaks off its chase, rather than waiting for its turn to know what it will do under the previous game rules.

The Roll20 API interface will allow the player to manage the changes to movement at any time. This includes stopping movement, changing the movement target, using a mount, etc. This of course brings into question what to do to when a character has more than one speed option, such as a walking speed and a flying speed. Assuming the reason for switching modes does not require an action, then one can switch back and forth between speeds so long as the entity has movement points remaining. The switching math will be managed by the API.

Below is a table to indicate what the expected movement per second will be from the API. Although it would be tedious, players could just this chart for movement if something did not work properly with the API.

Second→
↓Movement		121110987654321
1001 hex2 hexes2 hexes1 hex2 hexes2 hexes1 hex2 hexes2 hexes1 hex2 hexes2 hexes
901 hex2 hexes1 hex2 hexes1 hex2 hexes1 hex2 hexes1 hex2 hexes1 hex2 hexes
801 hex1 hex2 hexes1 hex1 hex2 hexes1 hex1 hex2 hexes1 hex1 hex2 hexes
701 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex2 hexes1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex2 hexes
601 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex
55—1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex
50—1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex—1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex1 hex
45—1 hex1 hex1 hex—1 hex1 hex1 hex—1 hex1 hex1 hex
40—1 hex1 hex—1 hex1 hex—1 hex1 hex—1 hex1 hex
35—1 hex—1 hex—1 hex1 hex—1 hex—1 hex1 hex
30—1 hex—1 hex—1 hex—1 hex—1 hex—1 hex
25——1 hex—1 hex——1 hex—1 hex—1 hex
20——1 hex——1 hex——1 hex——1 hex
15———1 hex———1 hex———1 hex
10—————1 hex—————1 hex
5———————————1 hex