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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 5742335" data-attributes="member: 53980">Yeah, but it's not like you often can't walk around the defensive line in D&D.  (Actually, that should probably be looked into- making it harder for enemies to walk around a Defender.)If both sides have some ranged and some melee, it's a wash.  The ranged will target each other, while the melee try to stop each other from interfering with the ranged.  No side loses any attacks.If the PCs have a mix of melee and ranged, while the Orcs are purely melee, the PC melee will try to stop the Orcs from engaging with the PC ranged but they will likely fail to some extent.  Giving the Fighter and the Rogue the job of stopping 4 or more bloodthirsty orcs is a losing proposition.  Without some kind of bottleneck, it just isn't going to happen.  If the two melee manage to stop 3 orcs, I'd say they're doing a great job!  That still, however, leaves at least one orc to interfere with the Ranger or the Wizard.  If the PCs were outnumbered at all, it means at least one orc on the Ranger and the Wizard, each.  Either way, even with excellent tactics, it doesn't ensure victory at all.  The Wizard is now busy trying to escape the orc attacking him, rather than contributing to the battle.  Better hope that the Rogue can finish off his Orc quickly, so he can go rescue the Wizard!Of course if you require an action to ready weapons, there should be an equivalent action to ready spell components.  Perhaps that means the Wizard only gets to cast (at best) every other round, because he has to ready components each time he wants to cast.  That gives the designers space to make Wizard spells more powerful to compensate, which I expect would detract from the current complaints that martial and arcane attacks are the same.There are ways to build the game so that a single action works.  I'm not certain that it's desirable, but I don't tink it will break the game as you suggest.  Personally, after reading [MENTION=27160]Balesir[/MENTION] 's post, I'm leaning towards a Standard + Move action, myself.</blockquote>

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