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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8189245" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Yup.For movement and distance control to create both dynamism and interesting decision-points, at least the following conditions need to all be met:* There needs to be a compelling reason to move or stay put which integrates not only with situation but with system as well (mitigating present or future risk, meeting a precondition to trigger a move, setting up or synergizing with a future move or with a teammates move, haranguing the enemy's ability to persist in an optimal gamestate).* There needs to be a cost that must be weighed to moving or staying put (action economy, if I do this I diminish the prospects of, or outright lose, the fictional positioning to do that, expendable/rechargable resource considerations).* If I do this, the enemy may counter with that (if either team PC or team monster's suite of options is limited, this 4d chess is reduced dramatically).And there is also a continuum with the three of those.  If you stack multiple compelling reasons with multiple areas of integration with multiple cost considerations with a robust suite of enemy responses...the decision-points become have more vitality and become more vital and combat dynamism becomes invigorated.</blockquote>