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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shin Okada" data-source="post: 5794758" data-attributes="member: 1956">Well, if you think about that kind of change, you should better think about opponents' tactical decisions, too,  IMHO.Unlike 4e defenders, 3.5e tanks do not have real way to keep melee opponents in one place. At lower level, AoO is enough threat. But at higher level, most opponents, especially high HP monsters, can easily ignore one AoO and move onto softer PCs. Also, more and more foes gain some ways to prevent AoO (evil DMs can give tumble skill ranks to dragons...).At higher level games, the fact that melee monsters must use full-attack action for inflicting the most damage is what preventing them from continually moving away from party warriors. Once engaged in melee, they must choose either to make a full attack against nearby PC or to move away from there and make one attack against more favorable PC.So, if you remove full-attack action, something like 4e mark or some other additional "enemy locking" ability should be added to melee tank types. Something more effective than mere AoO.And, as PCs and monsters use the same mechanics in 3.5e, you must add those abilities to many of the monsters, too. It will need a lot of works, I guess.</blockquote>