D&D 5E Splitting your Move - The Move-Attack-Move Dynamic

[Mistwell]

You can split up your move.
But you must expend an action to disengage from an adjacent enemy.
If you don't disengage and you move away from an adjacent enemy who is not adjacent to your ally, you are opportunity attacked at advantage.
if you are flanked by two enemies who are not adjacent to your allies, they attack you at advantage.
These are the tactical rules I'm using in my game.

To be clear, those are your house rules, not the actual rules. I don't recall anything about advantage with opportunity attacks, or flanking.

 

[Ichneumon]

Move-attack-move (MAM?) deserves to stay in D&D for as many editions as get published in the future. While in practice, most attacks will occur before or after the move, being able to attack within the move leaves the door open for memorable stunts. MAM truly comes into its own on a grid, even though you can use it with theatre of the mind. This is because it's easier to spot opportunities for utilising this feature.

It'll be good to see just how it interacts with the tactics module. In the meantime, my own house rule for flanking would be that the flanked target cannot make a withdrawal action. Of course, they can still move, but it might hurt.

 

[Mistwell]

By withdrawal, do you mean disengage?

 

[Ichneumon]

By withdrawal, do you mean disengage?

Yes.

 

[Ashkelon]

As someone who has played a lot of Savage Worlds, I feel people are overhyping the move-attack-move aspect of combat in 5e. Is it nice? Yes. Does it dramatically change how combat works? No.

 

[Plaguescarred]

Breaking Up A Move and the ability to move between multiattacks is one of my favorite feature of D&D Next. My friends also loved it immensely as soon as we first playtested it. It makes combat more dynamic and make movement more fluid and fun in general i think. You can move, open a door and resume your movement contrary to other editions for exemple. This enables you to do things more naturally and also makes multiattacking with Extra Attacks and Two-weapon fighting more flexible too. #PureGold

 

[Blackbrrd]

Sounds like a good idea. Is there any reason not to allow this in 4e?

 

[ForeverSlayer]

I say "hit and run" tactics will be very common to the point where everyone will be chasing each around the battlefield.

 

[Plaguescarred]

I say "hit and run" tactics will be very common to the point where everyone will be chasing each around the battlefield.

more common at range may be but not melee, because doing so will provoke opprotunity attacks.

 

[Plaguescarred]

Speaking about oppportunity attacks, another thing that subtly affect movement freedom is how they are provoked compared to the previous edition. You can move within the reach of an hostile creature without provoking an opoportunity attack, only leaving its reach will do.

It make combats less static and more fluid i've found.


EDIT Its also easier now to drop prone, stand up, and squeeze than the previous edition where it used to be action of some sort (move or free action usually), making movement more easy.