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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 8101240" data-attributes="member: 72555">Can I propose a simpler chase structure?Place everyone on a chase track, representing how far apart they are.  A typical chase track is in units of 10'.Everyone has endurance equal to their constitution score.When you expend endurace and you run out, you gain a level of exhaustion and the only action you can do is recover.  You can choose to expend endurance even if your endurance is 0 and just auto-gain a level of exhaustion, but this is usually unwise.You get 1 action, and 1 athletics check per round.Your actions fall into roughly these 3 categories:a) Confound.  Attempt to make raw speed unimportant.b) Accelerate.  Attempt to boost your own speed.c) Decellerate.  Attempt to slow down your enemy.d) Escape/Capture.  Attempt to win.e) Recover.(a) A successful confound means everyone's speed is zeroed this round.  A failed confound means only your speed is zeroed this round.  Costs 1d6 endurance.(b) A successful accelerate gives you advantage on your athletics check.  A failed accelerate means you have disadvantage on your athletics check.  Costs 1d8 endurance.(c) A successful decelerate gives your foe a 1d6 penalty on their athletics check.  A failed decellerate gives you a 1d6 penalty on your athletics check. Costs 1d10 endurance. (if multiple decelerates are active, roll that many d4s and take the largest)(d) A successful escape/capture ends the chase.  Failure gives you both disadvantage on athletics and zeros your speed bonus.  Costs 1d12 endurance.If you don't like the endurance cost of an action, you can abort it and fail instead of paying the endurance cost.(e) A recovery lets you expend a HD to recover (roll+con bonus) endurance.After the action, everyone rolls athletics and adds half their speed unless someone confounded. (edit: halved speed bonus)Subtract the fleeing person's check from everyone else.  Move everyone else 1 spot on the chase track if they win, plus 1 for every 5 full points you beat or lose against them by.  Natural 1s and 20s move an additional spot.Accelerate options include using acrobatics to take a shortcut, casting jump, etc.Confound options includes ducking into a crowd and attempting to lose your pursers.Escape/capture attempts are only possible if the distance is great/small enough for the escape/capture attempt.</blockquote>

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