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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sadrik" data-source="post: 5075082" data-attributes="member: 14506">Let me distinguish that in my house rules I keep it very close to the core rules as far as full round actions go. I would like to shake it up with my comments though.In an improved revisionist way of thinking, it should make every attempt to make the basic core 3e/3.5/d20 rules clearer and more concise. As far as actions go I think vast improvements should be made in this area. Way more than 90% of combat spells are standard actions allowing the caster to move and cast freely. Even high level damage dealing AoE spells are. Why is the fighter-type limited to not moving to do his full damage at his level? Isn't the choice of not drawing an AoO enough? Instead of creating more rules to encourage a little bit of movement, why not make an attack an attack? I think the full attack has been nearly universally put down as a 3e weakness. High level fighter-types cannot move more than 5' and attack and are only effective with a full action.My fix would be making the full attack just an attack, a standard action. I would make a 5' step a move action. This would give the ability to remove the withdraw action and make it a 5' step move action + a move move action. Heck make run a move action and charge a run + attack. If normally a run is x4 speed, a run action could be a standard action for x2 speed (or x1.5 speed for heavy armor). Long story short, remove full actions completely from the game.As far as the synthesis of the full round attack, I still really like the idea of the Multi-Attack feat. Each hand would be considered a secondary attack when fighting two handed (-5) just like monsters. With the feat it lowers them to -2. With Improved Multi-Attack it lowers them to -0. The problem is how do you make the two weapon fighter (requires feat) to match up with the great weapon fighter (doesn't require feat). Again, I like the idea of gaining multiple attacks with a single weapon through feats. So that it is not a class feature and monsters can simply take a feat, if they want and utilize the same rules as PCs. So going forward with the idea that full attacks are a standard action and that multi-attack feat allows the user to fight with two weapons. How do you get flurry to work out with the math? clearly flurry + multi-attack should be good it is two feats. Going back to these two fighters:At 6th, 18 STR, long and short sword, multi-attack, flurry and  5 more feats!-4 to hit1d8 + 41d8 + 41d6 + 2At 6th, 18 STR, greatsword, weapon focus, flurry and 6 more feats!-1 to hit2d6+62d6+6Perhaps those additional feats should be looked at more closely to balance out the two characters.</blockquote>

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