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<blockquote data-quote="IceBear" data-source="post: 1508395" data-attributes="member: 1118"><p>Why bother even keeping the 5ft step with this rule? The only reason to take a 5ft step is to avoid an AoO or to move up to someone who used a 5ft step to avoid you. If I'm a wizard in melee I'm not going to take a 5ft step to cast a spell if it's still going to cause an AoO. I would be better off casting the spell, suffering the AoO, and then moving 30ft back to prevent you from taking a full attack action.</p><p></p><p>This house rule, in my opinion, is essentially the same as removing the 5ft step. There is no circumstance that I can think of with this rule that anyone would take a 5ft step. A fighter would have no need to take a 5ft step to attack if the archer or wizard didn't take one to avoid an AoO, and an archer or wizard would be better off taking a standard move anyway. </p><p></p><p>If you want to get rid of it, just get rid of it. I personally have no problem with it as it is. And seriously, plausibility in a D&D game? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> This is the same game that lets someone fall 100ft or get roasted by a fireball and walk away unscathed <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> If it is ruining your group's <strong>enjoyment</strong> of the game, then that's fine - kill any rule that does that - but don't do it just because it's no <em>plausible</em>. I guess I got tired of rule tinkering 10 years ago as they ended up being too much work and I didn't have the time for the work</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IceBear, post: 1508395, member: 1118"] Why bother even keeping the 5ft step with this rule? The only reason to take a 5ft step is to avoid an AoO or to move up to someone who used a 5ft step to avoid you. If I'm a wizard in melee I'm not going to take a 5ft step to cast a spell if it's still going to cause an AoO. I would be better off casting the spell, suffering the AoO, and then moving 30ft back to prevent you from taking a full attack action. This house rule, in my opinion, is essentially the same as removing the 5ft step. There is no circumstance that I can think of with this rule that anyone would take a 5ft step. A fighter would have no need to take a 5ft step to attack if the archer or wizard didn't take one to avoid an AoO, and an archer or wizard would be better off taking a standard move anyway. If you want to get rid of it, just get rid of it. I personally have no problem with it as it is. And seriously, plausibility in a D&D game? :eek: This is the same game that lets someone fall 100ft or get roasted by a fireball and walk away unscathed :) If it is ruining your group's [B]enjoyment[/B] of the game, then that's fine - kill any rule that does that - but don't do it just because it's no [I]plausible[/I]. I guess I got tired of rule tinkering 10 years ago as they ended up being too much work and I didn't have the time for the work [/QUOTE]
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