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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1672989" data-attributes="member: 63">Well, if you make ranges abstract, and simply require you to spend a move action to switch ranges, then what you're effectively doing is making a halfling in full plate move as quickly as an unarmored human, since both would have to expend the same resources to move the same distance.&nbsp; The halfling is getting a great bonus, and the human is just having to suck it up.Now, if you require a roll to reach a destination, you can still keep speed and mobility as useful traits in the system.&nbsp; If you don't, you have to find some other way to penalize those who are slow or encumbered, or else you skew the system in favor of the heavily armored.You could have speed improve your Armor Class.&nbsp; That takes movement ranges out of the equation without ruining the coolness of nimble, dodging folks.&nbsp; Of course, there's still the oddity that a halfling can charge into combat at the same speed as a mounted warrior, but heck, that happened in the Return of the King, so I won't sweat it too much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 1672989, member: 63"] Well, if you make ranges abstract, and simply require you to spend a move action to switch ranges, then what you're effectively doing is making a halfling in full plate move as quickly as an unarmored human, since both would have to expend the same resources to move the same distance. The halfling is getting a great bonus, and the human is just having to suck it up. Now, if you require a roll to reach a destination, you can still keep speed and mobility as useful traits in the system. If you don't, you have to find some other way to penalize those who are slow or encumbered, or else you skew the system in favor of the heavily armored. You could have speed improve your Armor Class. That takes movement ranges out of the equation without ruining the coolness of nimble, dodging folks. Of course, there's still the oddity that a halfling can charge into combat at the same speed as a mounted warrior, but heck, that happened in the Return of the King, so I won't sweat it too much. [/QUOTE]

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