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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Funksaw" data-source="post: 1623035" data-attributes="member: 20181">I think that D&D 3.5 is too grainy to abstract combat, yet the rules tend to rely upon you abstracting combat.Take, for example, two-weapon fighting.  If I want to fight with two-weapons, there's a very specific rule for that.  I can't just say "I'm attacking him with two weapons" and make a *single* attack roll at no penalty.  The tactical aspects of the game prevents me from much variance in my roleplayed descriptions of attacks.  Similarly, if I'm fighting with a quarterstaff, I can't say that I'm hitting the guy provoking an AOO from me in one adjacent square with one end, and the guy in the other adjacent square with the other end without a penalty.  I have to describe my character hitting them with only one end of the quarterstaff otherwise I get a penalty.  This is in a situation where hitting the guy with the left or right of the quarterstaff makes no tactical difference other than the penalties involved.  I have no problem with tactical-oriented play, what I have a problem with is that D&D has gotten too granular.  "Two Weapon Fighting" should really be labled "Double Attack" and Improved two-Weapon fighting should really be labeled "Improved Double Attack."  The fact that you're weilding two weapons doesn't provide the advantage - the fact that you get to attack twice in the same round with less of a penalty is.  At the same time, Hit Points are highly abstracted - sometimes losing hit points means a scratch, sometimes it's a miss that takes you off guard, sometimes it's a close call, and sometimes it's an actual hit... This does not mesh well.  It's the little things like that that make D&D a nightmare for me to visualize in my head when I'm playing.  When you're using a combat map, you're not using the "headspace" - you're visualizing little pewter people on a map.  But if you're trying to imagine what your characters actions look like and try to capture a feel of heroic action and epic struggle - it's a problem.</blockquote>

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