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<blockquote data-quote="Galloglaich" data-source="post: 4637552" data-attributes="member: 77019">I selected &quot;Other&quot;: I agree iterative attacks is a clumsy rule: use the Martial Pool instead.&nbsp;Give your players a Martial Pool dice at a certain rate, say one at first level plus one per every 3 BaB. (Or alternately do as we do and give them one per BaB with a cap at 4th level)&nbsp;Then once they have say two Martial Pool, that means two dice, with no extra bonus ove their BaB, but they can choose to either attack twice with one die each, or attack one time using both dice and keeping the highest roll. This is called a &quot;roll many / keep one&quot; system. It improves their average die roll by about +4, doubles their chance of getting a natural 20, and all but eliminates their chance of getting a fumble (all of this increases with more and more dice). You can also give them multipliers on critical hit damage, one per dice they rolled.&nbsp;If you are using armor as damage reduction you can have even more fun with this by letting them use their MP for active defense die rolls.&nbsp;This eliminates all that useless arithmetic, and also allows you basically replace things like full attack option, tracking the number of AoO, fighting defensively, etc. etc. just by weighing the dice in your hand instead of doing a bunch of math.&nbsp;It's much more intuitive, more cinematic / dramatic and also faster IMO.&nbsp;G.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Galloglaich, post: 4637552, member: 77019"] I selected "Other": I agree iterative attacks is a clumsy rule: use the Martial Pool instead. Give your players a Martial Pool dice at a certain rate, say one at first level plus one per every 3 BaB. (Or alternately do as we do and give them one per BaB with a cap at 4th level) Then once they have say two Martial Pool, that means two dice, with no extra bonus ove their BaB, but they can choose to either attack twice with one die each, or attack one time using both dice and keeping the highest roll. This is called a "roll many / keep one" system. It improves their average die roll by about +4, doubles their chance of getting a natural 20, and all but eliminates their chance of getting a fumble (all of this increases with more and more dice). You can also give them multipliers on critical hit damage, one per dice they rolled. If you are using armor as damage reduction you can have even more fun with this by letting them use their MP for active defense die rolls. This eliminates all that useless arithmetic, and also allows you basically replace things like full attack option, tracking the number of AoO, fighting defensively, etc. etc. just by weighing the dice in your hand instead of doing a bunch of math. It's much more intuitive, more cinematic / dramatic and also faster IMO. G. [/QUOTE]

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