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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7002667" data-attributes="member: 12731">Perhaps something like: When a creature makes a melee or ranged attack and hits its target's AC exactly, that target gets to immediately make 20 ft movement that doesn't provoke OAs.

If the target is downed by the attack, or otherwise incapacitated, you (the attacker) gain the movement instead. Remember, you can still interweave attacks and movement as normal.D&amp;D combat is so abstract there isn't any reason to not make this an essentially random occurance. I opted against keying this to rolls of 20 or 1 or any specific d20 number, since roling or not rolling those can be affected by too many features or effects of the game. Rolling AC exactly is mostly a &quot;middle&quot; value that should occur fairly often even with advantage or disadvantage, for instance. Keying it to reaching the target's exact AC as one of the few non-static things that are easy to remember. 20 ft isn't a lot, but should be enough to escape the reach of most monsters, or to reach a new and interesting spot in most cases.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 7002667, member: 12731"] Perhaps something like: [INDENT][I]When a creature makes a melee or ranged attack and hits its target's AC [I]exactly[/I], that target gets to immediately make 20 ft movement that doesn't provoke OAs. If the target is downed by the attack, or otherwise incapacitated, [I]you[/I] (the attacker) gain the movement instead. Remember, you can still interweave attacks and movement as normal.[/I][/INDENT] D&D combat is so abstract there isn't any reason to not make this an essentially random occurance. I opted against keying this to rolls of 20 or 1 or any specific d20 number, since roling or not rolling those can be affected by too many features or effects of the game. Rolling AC exactly is mostly a "middle" value that should occur fairly often even with advantage or disadvantage, for instance. Keying it to reaching the target's exact AC as one of the few non-static things that are easy to remember. 20 ft isn't a lot, but should be enough to escape the reach of most monsters, or to reach a new and interesting spot in most cases. [/QUOTE]

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