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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mesh Hong" data-source="post: 5022912" data-attributes="member: 73463">Its an interesting idea, but in the end I don’t think that Raise Club (move action) and Smash (standard action) is that restrictive. In this case I think the problem lies with the basic melee attack that knocks prone, dazes and slows. It just makes it too easy for the Slow Giant to set up its Smash as the target will only be able to stand on its turn meaning that the Slow Giant is almost assured of its main attack path. Also in reality melee characters will have to come within reach of the creature to fight it, so it’s move action – standard action attack isn’t that restrictive. Many creatures don’t use a movement action at all in the middle rounds of combat.(note: this attack path is certainly not restrictive enough to use the high limited damage expression as it could probably use it every round) I do like the intention though. Maybe you could give the creature a 1/round minor action kick attack (thinking about it to emphasise that this is a slow creature you could make this attack its basic melee attack) then have Raise Club as a standard action (thus allowing your grants combat advantage idea a chance to work) making any attacks keyed from Raise Club deal 1.5x high expression damage to a single target or high expression damage to an area, blast or burst. The concept being very high damage every other round. You might need to balance the attack slightly, maybe give the attack a +1 or +2 to hit bonus.(note: I see you are already using high limited expression damage which is higher than my suggestion so I think that’s fine as is and probably doesn’t need an attack bonus) <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/bm.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":bmelee:" title="Basic Melee    :bmelee:" data-shortname=":bmelee:" /> Kick (minor, at will) 1/roundAttack +4 vs. AC; 1d6+3; on hit target is pushed 1 square; on miss target may shift 1 square as a immediate free action Note: I included an on miss free shift action to emphasise the characters being more agile than the creature and to continue the slow theme. EDIT - Additional ideaI would also be tempted to say that the creature was using an oversized weapon and therefore had +1 reach (with weapon attacks), this would work well with the creatures theme.</blockquote>

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