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<blockquote data-quote="Asha'man" data-source="post: 4918841" data-attributes="member: 52424">The problem with &quot;everyone can move and full attack&quot; is that under the 3e design philosophy, you'd have to extend the same courtesy to monsters. Which makes everything from trolls to true dragons a hell of a lot more dangerous. I've played a few high-level fights where monsters had various &quot;move and full attack&quot; tricks (Disciple of Demogorgon, quickened teleport etc) and the carnage was incredible. It becomes even more impossible than it already is to fight defensively or protect wounded characters. You might say that it's no problem if fighter-type characters and monsters thrash everything in their path, because all casters have Save-or-die effects, and from level 1 at that. But firstly, I don't think making everything as powerful as the most powerful option is a satisfying form of balance (too swingy) and secondly, despite the hype, magic has its weaknesses. It runs out. Wizards are fragile. (The 17th level wizard in our campaign died every other session for a while(!)) There are ways to protect against magic. But swords don't run out, and there are precious few ways to protect against greatsword to the face. When a fighter-type gets off a full attack, that's a lot of damage at pretty much any level.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Asha'man, post: 4918841, member: 52424"] The problem with "everyone can move and full attack" is that under the 3e design philosophy, you'd have to extend the same courtesy to monsters. Which makes everything from trolls to true dragons a hell of a lot more dangerous. I've played a few high-level fights where monsters had various "move and full attack" tricks (Disciple of Demogorgon, quickened teleport etc) and the carnage was incredible. It becomes even more impossible than it already is to fight defensively or protect wounded characters. You might say that it's no problem if fighter-type characters and monsters thrash everything in their path, because all casters have Save-or-die effects, and from level 1 at that. But firstly, I don't think making everything as powerful as the most powerful option is a satisfying form of balance (too swingy) and secondly, despite the hype, magic has its weaknesses. It runs out. Wizards are fragile. (The 17th level wizard in our campaign died every other session for a while(!)) There are ways to protect against magic. But swords don't run out, and there are precious few ways to protect against greatsword to the face. When a fighter-type gets off a full attack, that's a [B]lot [/B]of damage at pretty much any level. [/QUOTE]

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