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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asisreo" data-source="post: 9588635" data-attributes="member: 7019027">Action Surge. Its...a bit strange how we can pretty much excuse a wizard's luck in a situation that massively benefits a particular tool in their toolbox, but we do not afford the fighter the same thing. If two or three fighters spend their first turn just whacking at a single boss monster, with good rolls and maybe a crit or two, they could end the encounter before it began. Same if they were fighting even two or three enemies that were more "glass cannon" built. And I mentioned two or three fighters, but really a single fighter with really good luck could kill a single monster before anyone else gets a chance to act. Ypu may say "that's poor combat design," and I agree, but I'd also say that having a bunch of enemies weak to a single spell all inside that spell's range and without a counter to it is also bad combat design. And we were just talking about what was possible, not what was likely to happen in a well-designed game, so it should fundamentally be no different.</blockquote>