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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7131197" data-attributes="member: 20323">I also strongly second breaking away from the grid / distance-accounting. Having representative miniatures is fine, but I've found gridded / distance-accounting combat really diminishes how (a certain type of) players describes their actions &amp; movement.One house-rule I play around with is changing how Shove works. I often allow &quot;martial-type PCs&quot; to Shove as a either bonus action or 1/round for free on a successful hit.Another house-rule is including forced movement as a &quot;rider effect&quot; when, for example, someone badly fails a saving throw against a fireball, which might also knock them backwards and prone...or even through a thin wall!I think the key is not to get hung up on thinking every little bit of movement needs to be accounted for or tied down in the rules, and just roll with it. Actually, Mike Mearls' recent Twitch stream &quot;Tower of the Curator&quot; has some good examples of handling movement narratively. Mostly Mike just says &quot;yes, awesome, ok so that means...&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 7131197, member: 20323"] I also strongly second breaking away from the grid / distance-accounting. Having representative miniatures is fine, but I've found gridded / distance-accounting combat really diminishes how (a certain type of) players describes their actions & movement. One house-rule I play around with is changing how Shove works. I often allow "martial-type PCs" to Shove as a either bonus action or 1/round for free on a successful hit. Another house-rule is including forced movement as a "rider effect" when, for example, someone badly fails a saving throw against a [I]fireball[/I], which might also knock them backwards and prone...or even through a thin wall! I think the key is not to get hung up on thinking every little bit of movement needs to be accounted for or tied down in the rules, and just roll with it. Actually, Mike Mearls' recent Twitch stream "Tower of the Curator" has some good examples of handling movement narratively. Mostly Mike just says "yes, awesome, ok so that means..." [/QUOTE]

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