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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8560330" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Yeah, I considered writing "skirmish" rules for 4e more or less along these lines. A way to make a really really streamlined, low-overhead "quick fight" system that still took cues from the characters and their powers while being as fast as possible.My preference was to charge healing surges rather than HP directly, so I guess that would cash out as Hit Dice in 5e. More or less, you roll a d20 perhaps with a primary stat mod, that's your overall performance if you don't give special effort. Various things can qualify as special effort, e.g. consumable items, daily item powers, using a daily power, selling me (quickly) on a special stunt, Leader giving you a buff, etc. No positioning (unless part of aforementioned stunt), minimal buff tracking, rules meant only for fast and brutal fights that the party is very unlikely to lose but which can sap resources and make strategic planning less confident.Whole idea being, about half of combat encounters would get the "skirmish treatment," becoming five to ten minute blitzes that still cost something most of the time. That way, the remaining combats can be allowed to be big, dramatic affairs because they're meant to be, because you've had a couple low-impact fights and now a set piece would be more satisfying.In an ideal world where Chris Cocks summoned me to be the head designer of 6e, this would be one half of a parallel strategy, the other half being to add some actual "social combat"-type rules, which would be the non-combat set pieces equivalent to a proper set piece fight, just as the aforementioned "skirmish rules" would be the combat equivalent of the current "just roll Persuasion and we'll see what happens" rules for non-combat scenes. This is obviously a much more ambitious goal than the previous, but I think it would breathe a great deal of life into a part of the game that has been almost static since 3e at least (and possibly much earlier).</blockquote>

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