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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IceBear" data-source="post: 133721" data-attributes="member: 1118">I can see why you think you would be allowed to move and then charge, but a charge is a SPECIAL standard action.  It allows you to move twice your speed and attack in one round - something you normally can't do.  To do what you allow is to allow you to move triple your speed and attack.  That's not what the charging rule was intended to do.On page 121 of the PHB, it describes a standard action as allowing you to do something and move your speed in a combat round.  What's special about charge is that it's a standard action that allows you to move TWICE your speed in a combat round (that's why it's a SPECIAL STANDARD ACTION).  Actually moving isn't a move-equivalent action (look at the table of move-equivalent actions and you don't see "move" as an action), it's PART of the standard action.  A move-equivalent action takes the place of movement in a standard action or an entire partial action (also on page 121 of the PHB).  So, you don't get to move and take a standard action - your standard action is moving and taking an action.  That's the fundamental flaw in your premise that you can move and charge in the same round - you declare the standard action of charging and get to move upto twice your speed in a round an attack instead of declaring an attack action which only allows you to move your speed and attack.Again, move equivalent actions aren't COMBINED with standard actions, they just take the place of movement in the standard action.IceBear</blockquote>

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