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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lokiare" data-source="post: 6262627" data-attributes="member: 83996">Each character and monster in 4E can take 1 off turn action per round and 1 opportunity action per turn. Its a baseline assumption of the game and everyone gets it in 4E, even solo's. That's what makes it appealing.Legendary creatures don't have 'off turn actions' they have 'I can go when I want between someone elses turn actions six times per round'. Which is an entirely new subsystem.And it isn't 'rocks fall everyone dies'. It feels like a move that a DM that uses 'rocks fall everyone dies' would use.Another example:Player "All right, I've got my big spell ready and the Dragon has used his two get out of save free cards, so I'm going to lay the smack down on him."DM "Screw that, He flies out of your reach, and he does that right before your turn every round."Even if the DM plays it 'fair' it will still come off as that.It would be much better if they codified it into the regular combat system. Maybe make an action point system similar to 4E and allow characters to gain action points. Then if a dragon shows up and has a few extra action points, its not a big deal. Especially if characters can use action points between other creatures turns. Then it makes sense and doesn't feel as arbitrary.I don't like it because it feels like an excuse. "I'm sorry, we couldn't make the combat system work right to challenge the players, so we decided to make this subsystem and give it just this one type of monster."</blockquote>

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