Standing up from prone

[Nikosandros]

You can stand up as a move action. if your square is occupied, then you can also shift to adjacent square.

This leads to situations in which it is convenient to have someone in your square. I'm thinking about letting characters shift in any case... thoughts?

 

[Brain]

I like it. It allows the PCs to stand over their allies protectively and allow them to get up behind the protector.

 

[keterys]

If you justify it as the person lending a helping hand (or hip), it may be less bothersome.

 

[ValhallaGH]

You can stand up as a move action. if your square is occupied, then you can also shift to adjacent square.

This leads to situations in which it is convenient to have someone in your square. I'm thinking about letting characters shift in any case... thoughts?

It negates the movement restriction that being knocked prone is supposed to provide. Allowing critters to shift when standing up in an otherwise empty square makes prone-inducing powers even less effective than they already were.

Whether that's a good or bad thing for your games is up to you to decide. Either way, good luck.

 

[Nikosandros]

If you justify it as the person lending a helping hand (or hip), it may be less bothersome.

That person could also be an enemy...

 

[Nikosandros]

It negates the movement restriction that being knocked prone is supposed to provide.

But why should this restriction be negated by an enemy occupying your own space?

 

[keterys]

That person could also be an enemy...

Rarely - enemies can only stand on a person's square if they're helpless. So, yes, if someone is knocked unconscious then brought back up by healing, they can shift on stand.

 

[Nikosandros]

Rarely - enemies can only stand on a person's square if they're helpless.

Right. I was mixing it with the fact that you can stop in a prone ally square.

So, yes, if someone is knocked unconscious then brought back up by healing, they can shift on stand.

Which is still weird, but rather uncommon.

Would preventing the character from standing up be too much in this case? The prone character would have to expend two move actions, one for shifting away and the other to stand up... but perhaps it would be too harsh.

 

[ValhallaGH]

You can't shift while prone. According to the errata “You can’t move from your space, although you can teleport, crawl, or be forced to move by a pull, a push, or a slide.”

 

[Kordeth]

You can't shift while prone. According to the errata “You can’t move from your space, although you can teleport, crawl, or be forced to move by a pull, a push, or a slide.”

Errata or not, I'm inclined to let you spend a move action to move (not shift) one square while prone, so you can try to roll out of the way of a monster's attack or the like.