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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Korak" data-source="post: 1417686" data-attributes="member: 9781">Well, the bonuses imparted by charging are supposed to represent the attacker using his forward momentum to add speed and power to his attack in a headlong rush that compromises his defense.  This forward momentum doesn't do the attacker much good if he has to run 5 or 10 feet to the left or right of his opponent and make a sideways or diagonal swipe/poke with his weapon.  That is why charge is different from move and standard action attack.I happen to like the 3.5 revision to charging rules.  Just think more about what makes a charge mechanically different from a move and attack.  I'll grant you that the situation is slightly different for mounted characters, but I am not overly disappointed since spirited charge/lance attacks seem to be one of the very few places where the designers forgot to trade in damage multipliers for additional damage dice.  The last think I want to see in the game is more spirited charge, lance, rhinohide, ki critical, etc, etc, x8 charges with 4 for 1 power attack by holding the lance in two hands and having frenzied berserker levels, etc, etc.</blockquote>