1. How does diagnol movement work when you are passing between two diagnolly adjacent squares that both contain hindering terrain.

Does the movement go "in between" the hindering terrains?

2. On indoor maps, can a character cut a corner on a wall? In other words, can a character make a diagnol movement when a single wall is touching the vertex over which the movement passes?

thanks for any help,
scott.

1) The answer to this one is in the rulebook. After moving between the two diagonal square of hindering terrain, the figure must stop, as if it had just entered hindering terrain. However, the next time it moves, its movement is not halved, because it sin't in hindering terrain anymore.

2) Yessir. Even if the blocking terrain appears to stick out into the diagonal, it does not for movement purposes.

rowesbud

Toadally's got it.

Basically the diagonal between two squares is treated as the type of terrain in the square most advantageous to the mover/attacker.

So, if H is hindering, B is blocking, and C is clear, and / is the diagonal:

H/H = hindering
H/C = clear
H/B = hindering
C/B = clear
B/B = blocking

If F is a Figure:
F/F = blocking for Line of Fire purposes for powers and attacks that require LOF, but it is not blocking for movement (flight, HSS) or close combat attacks.

You asked on one of your three threads about this that you wanted someone to prove it.

Here we go:

HC Rules FAQ states:
"When a character moves through the corner between two diagonally adjacent squares of hindering terrain, it
ends its move after crossing the corner. If the movement ends in clear terrain, it may move without penalty the
next turn."

Also, under "Blocking Terrain":
"All walls are assumed to stop exactly at the edges of squares. if it looks like a wall “sticks out” into a
doorway, it doesn’t, and thus diagonal attacks can pass through without being blocked."
Since the wall does not "stick out" into the next square, the diagonal is clear.