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<blockquote data-quote="cimbrog" data-source="post: 9332823" data-attributes="member: 1303">My homebrew for AD&amp;D 2E used this kind of system. Certain actions had action point values that you added to your initiative roll to determine when your next action was along the track. Movement was usually considered to be part of the action if you wanted it - you determined where you were moving to when you declared your action. How far you could move was determined by how long your total initiative roll was (something like 1&quot; per X initiative clicks based on the character's movement.)The system, combined with my Armor Value rules, rules for bypassing AV on critical hits and different types of armors having different critical hit ranges with potentially different AV scores for the critical hit ranges, made things pretty complicated looking back. But I don't have memories of it slowing us down any more than usual...The thing about this kind of system, though, it is really encourages the &quot;one roll = one swing&quot; mentality which D&amp;D combat is NOT meant to represent (mostly). There's supposed to be all sorts of shuffling around, feinting and non-important attacks going on during your combat action.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cimbrog, post: 9332823, member: 1303"] My homebrew for AD&D 2E used this kind of system. Certain actions had action point values that you added to your initiative roll to determine when your next action was along the track. Movement was usually considered to be part of the action if you wanted it - you determined where you were moving to when you declared your action. How far you could move was determined by how long your total initiative roll was (something like 1" per X initiative clicks based on the character's movement.) The system, combined with my Armor Value rules, rules for bypassing AV on critical hits and different types of armors having different critical hit ranges with potentially different AV scores for the critical hit ranges, made things pretty complicated looking back. But I don't have memories of it slowing us down any more than usual... The thing about this kind of system, though, it is really encourages the "one roll = one swing" mentality which D&D combat is NOT meant to represent (mostly). There's supposed to be all sorts of shuffling around, feinting and non-important attacks going on during your combat action. [/QUOTE]

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