I stand corrected, that example actually makes a ton of sense...

Ok, just so we're clear, the following would be true on shadowland map:

If counting squeres, as in "characters within x squares", that is not reduced, since no targeting is involved.

If counting range and line of fire, x can't be greater than 6. "Target a character within range and line of fire"

All good. Sometimes it just takes a second to see things.

Correct. All Shadowland says is:
Just remember, anytime you draw lof you are targeting. So a Hydra/PD that is 7 squares away won't help an adjacent friendly who is 6 squares away from the target.

The Dr. Strange ruling is not really applicable. The quoted power allows Dr. Strange to target a character any number of squares away. The map applies a restriction.

With Tellus, how do you determine whether a character is more than 6 squares away except by counting squares? Tellus changes where you count squares from. Unless there is a change to Tellus, I believe that the character can count squares from a friendly character within 4 squares of Tellus, and from there, is limited to 6 by the map, because Tellus changes how you count squares.

With Maria Hill, I think it's a similar case as Dr. Strange; she doesn't change where she counts squares from, only range.

Tangent, but base size doesn't matter.

Unless there's been an orange ruling otherwise, you pick the square, not the character, so the square cannot both be 5 squares away and less than 5 squares away from your starting area.

There has been a discussion and an orange ruling. Yes, the square is 5 away, but the character is not, so yes base size does matter. (giggity)

Let me see if I could explain it with a story.

I played a lot of strategy games as a child growing up. In one of the games that I played, there was a command in battle that would allow you to take command of a friendly unit and have them perform an action in the place of your turn, regardless of your distance from each other and the eventual target of your attack.

With all that said, if you transpose Tellus as your unit, the friendly piece as the unit that you, "take command of", and the enemy unit as the eventual target of your attack, all that with the restriction of "within 6 squares", the only two units that matter should be Tellus and the enemy unit being within 6 squares, seeing as it is Tellus, not the friendly unit, that is taking the action and getting the action token.

Sorry if I'm being thick here, but I don't follow. Are we talking about Mind Control? Are you agreeing or disagreeing with what I said?

In the examples used so far, Tellus is doing nothing so he wouldn't be getting an action token. The character being given an action is drawing lof through Tellus, and as such they are within 6 squares for lof and range purposes, but the physical piece is not within 6 squares, so it cannot draw lof to the target. On the flipside, the opposing piece is within 6 squares for any powers on the friendly piece behind Tellus (be it SPO or Prof X or whatever), but they are also still greater than 6 away for lof purposes, so could not target said friendly if they had the range and lof to do so.

No. I was trying to get a grasp of the situation by using a similar situation. That was all.

Ah ok. I read it like 5 times, then read it a few more trying to figure out the angle.