Run?

[Ogrork the Mighty]

The Run feat allows you to move 3x/4x your speed as a full round action. There is another feat in a WotC book (Complete Adventurer?) that allows you to make a single 90 degree turn during your run, whereas you'd otherwise be restricted to running in a straight line.

Do you think a third feat would be overpowered in allowing multiple turns during the run? Maybe even unlimited? You'd be burning three feats on running...

 

[wmasters]

Presumably you mean the run feat lets you go at 4x/5x your speed (4x in heavy or medium armour, 5x in light or no armour).

I'd have no problem with unlimited turning as a part of a run as the third feat in a running chain. That said, I don't think I've ever seen anyone take Run, or the Complete Adventurer feat.

 

[Deset Gled]

I'd have no problem with unlimited turning as a part of a run as the third feat in a running chain.

Seconded. Running is a full round action, so the potential for abusing this is practically non-existant (unless you're a Choker), and spending three feats is a major investment. Changing shape into something with a faster ground speed is a much better option, IMO. I might even be convinced to house-rule the CA feat to allow unlimited turning.

Such a feat could be very nice for RP purposes, though.

 

[Stalker0]

If you feel run is weak try this variant:

You can always run, even under statuses or conditions that would not allow you to run normally. Gives the feat a little more kick.

But yeah, I think 3 feats for unlimited turning would be pretty weak actually. I think the 2 feats alone would be fine.

 

[Infiniti2000]

Isn't there a feat that allows a turn while charging? If you instead alter that second feat to be a single 90 degree turn (or less of a turn) while running or charging, I think that would be enough of an improvement to actually make it useful.

 

[ElectricDragon]

Actually, you run at x3 in heavy armor or carrying a heavy load and x4 otherwise (no armor, light armor, medium armor, light load, medium load). With the Run feat this increases to x4 in heavy armor or carrying a heavy load; x5 otherwise. Medium armor does not decrease the multiplier for run speed, just the hustle speed from which run speed is determined.

Ciao
Dave

 

[Plane Sailing]

You know, we've never noticed that line that says that running has to be done in a straight line - and there is no way we'd do it now. I'd definitely recommend just allowing people to run round corners like, you know, in real life.

Charge still has to be a straight line, sure - but forcing run to happen in a straight line (literally) means you've got lots of circumstances when you can't actually run at all!

Feats to allow you to take a turn during a run are woefully underpowered as feats, I can't imagine why a player would take one out of his 7 or so total feats! If there was going to be a feat that allowed running round corners, you ought to have a single feat that lets you make as many corners as you want.

Just my 2cp.

 

[foxwick]

I've always thought the "in a straight line" bit was lame too. I would house-rule something to the effect of using more movement to make turns - maybe 10ft for a diagonal, 20ft for a right hand turn. That more accurately captures the slow downs needed, but allows players to run whereever, just like IRL.