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<blockquote data-quote="Monayuris" data-source="post: 7956161" data-attributes="member: 6859536">I'd got with a combat maneuver system system for fighters. Something that encourages creative actions in combat and lets fighters perform feats of strength and skill. Something like Dungeon Crawl Classic's Mighty Deeds or Low Fantasy Gaming's Martial Exploits. The point of such a system should be to be something on top of normal attacks and something that doesn't penalize such attempts.Most systems tell you that you can do all these cool actions like disarm and trip and knock prone, but then tell you that you need to take a -4 penalty and you do it in place of damage. In such systems it is always better to do a standard attack without penalty and inflict damage.If your system does all that cool stuff in addition to damage, it will be used. Some things I would suggest such a system be able to do is (in addition to normal attack damage): knock prone/back/asidedisarm and throw weapon away or take the weaponstun an opponent or inflict disadvantageattack multiple opponents at the same timeleap in the air to attack a flying creaturecut off a poisonous stinger or maim a creature attackforce a morale check and scare enemies from attackingetc...I'd suggest something fast and loose. The player should just tell you what they want to do and you can just ask for an ability check or saving throw. No need for feats or powers or anything like that to quantify this.If a 1st level wizard can put 6 orcs to sleep, a fighter should be able to make a sweeping attack and kill 6 orcs at once.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Monayuris, post: 7956161, member: 6859536"] I'd got with a combat maneuver system system for fighters. Something that encourages creative actions in combat and lets fighters perform feats of strength and skill. Something like Dungeon Crawl Classic's Mighty Deeds or Low Fantasy Gaming's Martial Exploits. The point of such a system should be to be something on top of normal attacks and something that doesn't penalize such attempts. Most systems tell you that you can do all these cool actions like disarm and trip and knock prone, but then tell you that you need to take a -4 penalty and you do it in place of damage. In such systems it is always better to do a standard attack without penalty and inflict damage. If your system does all that cool stuff in addition to damage, it will be used. Some things I would suggest such a system be able to do is (in addition to normal attack damage): knock prone/back/aside disarm and throw weapon away or take the weapon stun an opponent or inflict disadvantage attack multiple opponents at the same time leap in the air to attack a flying creature cut off a poisonous stinger or maim a creature attack force a morale check and scare enemies from attacking etc... I'd suggest something fast and loose. The player should just tell you what they want to do and you can just ask for an ability check or saving throw. No need for feats or powers or anything like that to quantify this. If a 1st level wizard can put 6 orcs to sleep, a fighter should be able to make a sweeping attack and kill 6 orcs at once. [/QUOTE]

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