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<blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 455602" data-attributes="member: 1264">Petrosian: I found your reply quite patronizing. I would appreciate if you tried to stay civil on these boards. At least Icebear's response was polite and to the point. Yours was just condescending.Many games do without an AoO-like mechanism and work just fine. So apparently AoO's aren't a necessary component of any combat system.I agree that the D&amp;D combat system has been designed for a large part with AoO's in mind. So IF you ARE going to remove AoO's, you should probably add some mechanism to cover at least part of what AoO's provided to the combat system. My suggestions were made under the assumption that AoO's would be removed.I'm not advocating whether or not you or anyone should do this in your own game. Although I do think the AoO system is the single most difficult part of the core rules for beginning players to grasp, and I do think removing or seriously reworking them in a possible next edition would be a good idea.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Conaill, post: 455602, member: 1264"] Petrosian: I found your reply quite patronizing. I would appreciate if you tried to stay civil on these boards. At least Icebear's response was polite and to the point. Yours was just condescending. Many games do without an AoO-like mechanism and work just fine. So apparently AoO's aren't a necessary component of any combat system. I agree that the D&D combat system has been designed for a large part with AoO's in mind. So IF you ARE going to remove AoO's, you should probably add some mechanism to cover at least part of what AoO's provided to the combat system. My suggestions were made under the assumption that AoO's would be removed. I'm not advocating whether or not you or anyone should do this in your own game. Although I do think the AoO system is [i]the[/i] single most difficult part of the core rules for beginning players to grasp, and I do think removing or seriously reworking them in a possible next edition would be a good idea. [/QUOTE]

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