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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Painfully" data-source="post: 1083978" data-attributes="member: 601">I had a new player in one of my groups last night who was playing D&D for the first time as a 4th-level half-orc barbarian.  In combat, she is facing two enemy halfling rogues adjescent to each other and she says she wants to bash their heads together.  How would you handle this?My solution was to use a touch attack on each opponent (knowing that she couldn't really attack two opponents at 4th-level yet), and then allow each halfing an opposed strength roll against the half-orc to "escape" before getting their heads collapsed.Besides the two attacks I allowed her, does all this sound correct?  Should I no longer allow this until she gets two attacks per round?  Cinematic effects made this a highlight of the evening, and was one of many similar moments when the new player not knowing the rules actually made this a very fun and interesting session, but I did feel like I bent the rules in a few places to keep things more fun.  [had i been using action dice, she certainly would have gotten one for showing off <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=":)" />]--------------------And a follow-up question:  Are there any easy ways to handle things like body slams, or throwing your opponent across the room (both of which also occured in the same game).  Or is grapple the only real mechanic for all these things?</blockquote>

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