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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5740034" data-attributes="member: 1210"><p>The shift is like the 5' step once it has grown up and gotten a degree.</p><p></p><p>By making it a move action, you can shift and then move (by cashing in your standard action for a second move), unlike in 3e D&D (not sure about Conan). Also, tons of 4e monsters and powers have "shift 2 squares" or more abilities. But like I said in my post above, with full attacks (which 4e lacks), spending your move action for anything has a huge cost attached.</p><p></p><p>That's why I suggested possibly employing feats for this, expanding on the 5' step in various ways. You could have things like:</p><p></p><p><strong>Expert Step</strong>- When you take a 5' step, you may move an extra 5' without provoking attacks of opportunity.</p><p></p><p><strong>Battlefield Step</strong>- When you take a 5' step and are adjacent to an enemy, you may move to any space adjacent to that enemy without provoking.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mighty Step</strong>- When you take a 5' step, you may make a Bull Rush attempt against one enemy adjacent to your starting square. You can only push the enemy 5' with this bull rush.</p><p></p><p><strong>Quick Step</strong>- At the start of your turn, you may take a 5' step even if you will move later in the round.</p><p></p><p><strong>Tactical Distraction</strong>- Whenever an ally within 30' triggers an AoO, you may take a 5' step as an immediate action.</p><p> </p><p></p><p>If you don't want to make them feats- as this costs characters other options to employ them- you could make them combat maneuvers that you gain access to with sufficient BAB. (Note that I didn't really worry about what prereqs would be appropriate above; obviously some of those ideas are better than others.) Making them all free like that also would definitely encourage a more mobile sort of combat. On reflection, that's probably a better path to get what you're after.</p><p></p><p>One caveat is that you might need to look at Tumble if you do this, I don't know if it is different in Conan.</p><p></p><p>I have to say, whatever its flaws, 4e gets dynamic combat pretty well right. You can probably find a bunch of cool ideas if you know someone familiar with it who you can mine for ideas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 5740034, member: 1210"] The shift is like the 5' step once it has grown up and gotten a degree. By making it a move action, you can shift and then move (by cashing in your standard action for a second move), unlike in 3e D&D (not sure about Conan). Also, tons of 4e monsters and powers have "shift 2 squares" or more abilities. But like I said in my post above, with full attacks (which 4e lacks), spending your move action for anything has a huge cost attached. That's why I suggested possibly employing feats for this, expanding on the 5' step in various ways. You could have things like: [b]Expert Step[/b]- When you take a 5' step, you may move an extra 5' without provoking attacks of opportunity. [b]Battlefield Step[/b]- When you take a 5' step and are adjacent to an enemy, you may move to any space adjacent to that enemy without provoking. [b]Mighty Step[/b]- When you take a 5' step, you may make a Bull Rush attempt against one enemy adjacent to your starting square. You can only push the enemy 5' with this bull rush. [b]Quick Step[/b]- At the start of your turn, you may take a 5' step even if you will move later in the round. [b]Tactical Distraction[/b]- Whenever an ally within 30' triggers an AoO, you may take a 5' step as an immediate action. If you don't want to make them feats- as this costs characters other options to employ them- you could make them combat maneuvers that you gain access to with sufficient BAB. (Note that I didn't really worry about what prereqs would be appropriate above; obviously some of those ideas are better than others.) Making them all free like that also would definitely encourage a more mobile sort of combat. On reflection, that's probably a better path to get what you're after. One caveat is that you might need to look at Tumble if you do this, I don't know if it is different in Conan. I have to say, whatever its flaws, 4e gets dynamic combat pretty well right. You can probably find a bunch of cool ideas if you know someone familiar with it who you can mine for ideas. [/QUOTE]
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