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[New DM Question] What about Simultaneous Movement?
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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7559049" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>Dash is one of those things where it works <em>close enough</em> to how it worked in previous editions that it’s easy to assume you know how it works if you’re not looking at the new edition as a completely separate ruleset, and tends to work out more or less the same way if you do, but can lead to a few minor misconceptions here and there. </p><p></p><p>n 3e and 4e, moving was a kind of action. In 3.x you could move up to your speed as a move action, or run as a full round action. In 4e with its more streamlined action economy, you could move up to your speed as a move action and you could “trade down” your standard action for an additional move action or minor action (or a move for an additional minor), so if you wanted to run you used two move actions instead of a move and a standard action. 5e, at a glance, looks like it uses pretty much the same action economy as 4e, with minor actions re-named to bonus actions and without the ability to exchange actions of one type for another. It is easy therefore to assume that the Dash action is a replacement for the ability to trade a standard action for a move, and to file it away as a “double move” in your memory banks. And for the most part, your game won’t function much differently if you do make that assumption. But the truth is, movement in 5e is its own separate resource with its own separate economy from actions, and the Dash action gives you more of the resource you spend to move. A subtle difference, but not an insignificant one as we’ve seen.</p><p></p><p>Side note, I would assume that the reason they made this change to the way movement works, despite it being subtly unintuitive for players of previous editions was in part to cut down on game-y language like “action,” and in part to allow players to break up their movement, so you can spend some of it before taking an action and some after, instead of having to resolve your full move action in one go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7559049, member: 6779196"] Dash is one of those things where it works [I]close enough[/I] to how it worked in previous editions that it’s easy to assume you know how it works if you’re not looking at the new edition as a completely separate ruleset, and tends to work out more or less the same way if you do, but can lead to a few minor misconceptions here and there. n 3e and 4e, moving was a kind of action. In 3.x you could move up to your speed as a move action, or run as a full round action. In 4e with its more streamlined action economy, you could move up to your speed as a move action and you could “trade down” your standard action for an additional move action or minor action (or a move for an additional minor), so if you wanted to run you used two move actions instead of a move and a standard action. 5e, at a glance, looks like it uses pretty much the same action economy as 4e, with minor actions re-named to bonus actions and without the ability to exchange actions of one type for another. It is easy therefore to assume that the Dash action is a replacement for the ability to trade a standard action for a move, and to file it away as a “double move” in your memory banks. And for the most part, your game won’t function much differently if you do make that assumption. But the truth is, movement in 5e is its own separate resource with its own separate economy from actions, and the Dash action gives you more of the resource you spend to move. A subtle difference, but not an insignificant one as we’ve seen. Side note, I would assume that the reason they made this change to the way movement works, despite it being subtly unintuitive for players of previous editions was in part to cut down on game-y language like “action,” and in part to allow players to break up their movement, so you can spend some of it before taking an action and some after, instead of having to resolve your full move action in one go. [/QUOTE]
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