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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jynx_lucky_j" data-source="post: 6358086" data-attributes="member: 32333">This sort of thing is exactly why I like to play without miniatures. I can keep things like movement more freeform. The fighter says he wants to keep the bad guy from getting to his squishy friends? He doesn’t need to have a special ability to do so. When someone tries to pass by him he interposes himself whether it his turn or not. A particularly nimble enemy might be able to juke him, a particularly strong one might be able to bowl through him (with appropriate checks being made), but generally speaking he can interpose himself against an enemy. Now if a dozen guys are trying to charge past him at once, obviously he can’t stop everyone, I might say something like he can interpose himself between a numbers of creature equal to his proficiency bonus assuming they are all coming from the same direction. Then of course an wide open area wear enemies can run wide around the fighter he might only be able to block one or two.The Battle map makes everything so static. Is the fighter really going to stand there while a line of enemies conga line past him 10 feet away? Honestly the very idea of a conga line is ridiculous. And I would call bullsh*t on any DM using it. Is it the most efficient action the enemies could take? Maybe. But it is totally unrealistic. The DM is just gaming the system, rather than roleplaying the NPCs.</blockquote>