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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jontherev" data-source="post: 1016827" data-attributes="member: 1451">Right, that is quite a nerfing imo.  Now, if you're in melee, it's possible, depending on the terrain, that you have to move back 5' and then up again 5' in order to even use the feat.  At the very minimum, this eats up 5' of movement (in the case above, it's 10'), which may render your spring attack ineffective (other than acting as an expensive version of tumble) if your foe has reach or you only have 20' of movement.  I think this is quite significant.  Also, now that movement has been nerfed somewhat (S&S boots), the abuse factor goes down a tad.  So, basically, there's no more "I swing my greatsword at the ogre with the polearm (15' reach?), and spring attack away 30'!  Yee-haw!"  Now, it's..."I move back 5' (we're in a 10' wide corridor and your buddy is next to you), up another 5', swing my greatsword, and spring away 20'!"...to which the DM sadly informs you that, "well, the ogre takes a 5' step, and swings his polearm at you 3 times."On topic, I am quite happy with my books.  I actually LIKE the weapon size changes because it evens the playing the field between small and medium races.  I found 3E very frustrating in that if you played a small race, you were severely nerfed in your choice of weapons.  I also really like that the dagger now does slashing or piercing damage.  Nice.  Now, the armor changes kind of suck though, swinging in favor of medium races.  However, there are probably more of the medium races in the world anyway, so I can understand that change I suppose.</blockquote>

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