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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9032984" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>I pulled most of the list from <a href="https://twitter.com/JM13136849/status/1662944520974090240/photo/1" target="_blank">the 3.5 AoO table 8-2</a> but you missed the point I was making. Doing those other things had a positive impact on combat flow & engagement by making the risk of provoking a thing to consider the benefits against that cost. In 5e the rules go beyond simply exempting most of those from provoking & go straight on to ensuring that those things aren't important or aren't even meaningful options. Even if a player steps away from a monster for whatever reason to provoke an OA it doesn't really change anything in the grand scale of the combat itself... gonna get dropped? ->healing word! Caught in melee with a ranged weapon? -> Sheath a weapon no longer provokes! But what about if you want to sheath the bow & draw a rapier? -> the object interaction rules on 190 are so vague & overly generous that they are hardly an impediment there even before the disaster of having them opt out of the action economy so they could strip standard/full round/free/swift action as terms & just have "action".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9032984, member: 93670"] I pulled most of the list from [URL='https://twitter.com/JM13136849/status/1662944520974090240/photo/1']the 3.5 AoO table 8-2[/URL] but you missed the point I was making. Doing those other things had a positive impact on combat flow & engagement by making the risk of provoking a thing to consider the benefits against that cost. In 5e the rules go beyond simply exempting most of those from provoking & go straight on to ensuring that those things aren't important or aren't even meaningful options. Even if a player steps away from a monster for whatever reason to provoke an OA it doesn't really change anything in the grand scale of the combat itself... gonna get dropped? ->healing word! Caught in melee with a ranged weapon? -> Sheath a weapon no longer provokes! But what about if you want to sheath the bow & draw a rapier? -> the object interaction rules on 190 are so vague & overly generous that they are hardly an impediment there even before the disaster of having them opt out of the action economy so they could strip standard/full round/free/swift action as terms & just have "action". [/QUOTE]
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