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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vaalingrade" data-source="post: 8732998" data-attributes="member: 82524">So the real big thing that keeps this from happening is... the mechanics don't exist in 5e.So going back to my example, we have Wolf Pack Tactics. That was an at-will deal. I could do that every round, whenever I wanted. You don't get to do cool things whenever you want in 5e if you're not a caster. It has to be based on points or dice or some other rest-resetting ability. The game wants to push you into spending at least half of each combat using a basic, barebones attack with the excuse being making a choice every round is too hard and too time-consuming.But that's not all.My other favorite was Commander's Strike. It just straight up let me spend my normal attack allowing an ally to make an attack with a bonus equal to my INT mod. Basically, I gave my buddy an extra attack with a bonus rather than trying myself. It's an ability to manipulate the action economy in a fairly complex way. They get this attack out of turn, meaning that they get to, for example, attack early should they have rolled poorly on initiative, or when it would be better for them to act instead of me.Again, a mechanic that's not in this edition. There's no replacement for that.I can't remember the name, but I then had an encounter power that let me switch places with an ally within a certain distance. I could do this in every encounter, and since it didn't draw AOO, it let me put myself in harm's way for an ally, set up flanking between two allies, or put enemies in harm's way by placing the casters in a strategic position. Again, screwing with positioning and action economy with an on-tap resource I'm not going to be missing from a battle.Further on, there were paragon path abilities that used action points.Action Points were like inspiration, but awesome. They gave you an additional action when popped and at the second tier (level 10+) you got a paragon path that let you get other bennies when you popped them. So I could do things like Wolf Pack Tactics to make an attack nd move an ally into position, then pop my action point, using Commander's Strike to let them attack. Then my inspiring action(I think that was the name) let another ally try to break out of an effect they were under or get temp HP.That's a non-spellcaster just absolutely changing the momentum of a fight in one turn and it was so much fun and that's... not a thing anymore and likely never will be. And that's a shame.</blockquote>

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