Cintra Bristol wrote:
Umm, okay, I'm confused.
I thought that when the 2.0 minis rules came out, people read them and said, "Hey, diagonals count as 1 square!"
And then, I read a post somewhere that the errata came out (or maybe it was just a post from a WotC person somewhere) and said, "Oops, that was a mistake, diagonals still count the same as they always did."
And I thought the entire premise that 4E would have diagonals count as 1 square came from that mistake, and wasn't really part of the information we've gotten from WotC about 4E at all.
Of course, I'm at work, and all the sites where I could try to look this up are blocked here. And Snopes.com doesn't have anything about it.
So does anyone have a confirmed source, either way, on this one?
Not sure where you heard this. The 2.0 DDM rules very intentionally changed to diagonals = 1 square, and it's very pervasive throughout the rulebook. There has been no errata that says otherwise.
You can expect 4E to also have the same rule.