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<blockquote data-quote="Ltheb Silverfrond" data-source="post: 3557393" data-attributes="member: 39867">Well, it works from an abstract combat point of view. When it's your 'turn', you aren't actually just swinging your sword 1-4 times vaguely into your opponent's square in the off chance that you will defeat all their defenses and pierce their armor and kill them. (At least, I hope thats not how medieval knights &amp; the like fought... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />) You are actively fighting, parrying, riposting,&nbsp; dodging, taking minor glancing blows, etc. I see the combat system as a very cinematic abstraction - When it is your turn, that isn't the only time your character is moving, and swinging a sword; It's just the only time you get to do any of it meaningfully. Like in a movie, where fight scenes pan back and fourth between separate combats and combatants. Extra attacks from BAB almost exclusively have to be tied to # of times you have a chance to strike, not number of times you are actually swinging. I can pretty quickly whip around a sword or quarterstaff more than 4 times in one 6 second round round. Now, only one of the following will work: Either I am some sort of epic level multiclass computer-programmer/gladiator, or that any medieval warrior worth his salt would parry my entire flourish, disarm me, and have is blade at my throat before I knew what hit me. My money's on #2. (But secretly #1 is true<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)But to each their own; the other side of the fence (high level fighter-types just swing swords faster) can be easily justified.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ltheb Silverfrond, post: 3557393, member: 39867"] Well, it works from an abstract combat point of view. When it's your 'turn', you aren't actually just swinging your sword 1-4 times vaguely into your opponent's square in the off chance that you will defeat all their defenses and pierce their armor and kill them. (At least, I hope thats not how medieval knights & the like fought... :)) You are actively fighting, parrying, riposting, dodging, taking minor glancing blows, etc. I see the combat system as a very cinematic abstraction - When it is your turn, that isn't the only time your character is moving, and swinging a sword; It's just the only time you get to do any of it meaningfully. Like in a movie, where fight scenes pan back and fourth between separate combats and combatants. Extra attacks from BAB almost exclusively have to be tied to # of times you have a chance to strike, not number of times you are actually swinging. I can pretty quickly whip around a sword or quarterstaff more than 4 times in one 6 second round round. Now, only one of the following will work: Either I am some sort of epic level multiclass computer-programmer/gladiator, or that any medieval warrior worth his salt would parry my entire flourish, disarm me, and have is blade at my throat before I knew what hit me. My money's on #2. (But secretly #1 is true:)) But to each their own; the other side of the fence (high level fighter-types just swing swords faster) can be easily justified. [/QUOTE]

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