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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 4995026" data-attributes="member: 2011">It doesn't say you can change your standard action to do this, so you cannot.That standard action was already selected. Including the "move to closest square" portion of it.By allowing additional move, the charging creature is no longer moving to that explicit closest square anymore. He's moving to a different square.They do for melee basic attacks and charge is move plus melee basic attack with the restriction that the move must be in a straight line to the closest square to the enemy. That's pretty clear cut.No exceptions. No deviations. Just the action as declared by the attacker because of the rules and restrictions of charging.RAW does answer these questions. It's there in the move to closest square rule. It's silly semantics to think that one does not have to select a target in order to move in a straight line to the closest square of the target. It's silly semantics to think that one can not move to the closest square and still perform the charge. That's breaking the closest square rule.For a different interpretation to occur, one has to change the action that was declared, hence, changing the conditions that allow for a charge in the first place. It's a catch 22 with other interpretations.I understand your POV. The word target is not in that rules text. But, one cannot deviate from the other rules in that rules text.</blockquote>