Spell discussion: "Meteor strike"

[Jonathan.Link]

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@Jonathan.Link

We'll call 3 feet=1 pace=1 meter, for simplicity, technically a meter is a bit larger than a pace, but at this scale, it's not really worth it, and actually only strengthens my argument that the size is too low.
Formula for volume of a sphere is 4/3πr^3, or 4/33.1491.5^3=3,207,241.53 cubic paces.

I've always used 1 pace = 1.48 meters or 1.5 when i want to simplify it, which i didn't want to do in this case considering the huge numbers. So 1 cubic pace = 3.2 cubic meters. Seems about right.

There's been discussion on this before. A pace is roughly 3 feet.

Size of a pace

Hi, This came out of a discussion on a different topic. it is sufficiently a tangent to not muddy up that post. A pace is defined, just not directly. True, there is no explicit statement saying that a pace is three feet; however, there are several unambiguous statements to that effect: On page 112, under the Duration of Sun/Ring, ArsM5 says: "A ring must actually be drawn while the spell is being cast....The magus may not move more quickly than ten paces per round (five feet per second) whil…