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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Norfleet" data-source="post: 1257657" data-attributes="member: 11581"><p>If I were to adapt such a thing for D&D, I'd decouple it from Dodge entirely, and instead make it something that comes into effect when you choose the total defense option. That would make combat have a somewhat more realistic feel to it. As a veteran of several knife fights, I can tell you that two combatants in a knife fight do not hurl themselves at each other from the get-go and attempt to hack each other to bits. There's a fair amount of circling and preliminary probing, none of which lends itself to an actual attack, because realistically, the biggest way to create an opening to be attacked through, is to actually commit to an attack: In a fight, your opponent is always most open at the moment he decides to commit to an actual attack. Thus, a large portion of the battle involves an extended period of preliminary circling and light probing, which certainly can last far longer than the 6 seconds of a combat round. For somebody go and make 4 attacks in one 6-second round would be incredibly hasty and amount to spending a goodly portion of the round slashing. That's simply not a terribly realistic fighting model.</p></blockquote><p></p>