fantasy crafting

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

I don't think the use of "inches" in D&D was a typo. Rather, it was a result of its miniatures wargame heritage, where the "inch" on a tabletop battlefield was a common measure for distance, with varying scale factors depending on the mini rules in use.

Though the D&D usage is still a little weird, what with the way it implies characters represented with the more or less standard 25 mm miniatures are like 30 feet tall.