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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6657317" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Tony, that's insightful, have XP. But I still am going to take issue with one of your points:The fighter may not have mechanical means of making himself the target, but other classes have mechanical means of making themselves not be the target, which is better. In an extreme case, if all the other 30' move PCs do is Dash directly away from the enemies while the 30' move enemies Dash directly towards them and the fighter Dashes to catch up and then deliver opportunity attacks... the PCs win that fight, because the fighter is the only one attacking. In practice most classes have better ways to not be attacked than just Dashing away, whether it is hiding behind cover (vs. missile foes) or Cunning Action/Expeditious Retreat or Spike Growth or something else.The fighter does not want to be the target. That's wrongheaded. He wants everybody else not to be the target. In some situations these are similar things, but at a fundamental level they are different.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6657317, member: 6787650"] Tony, that's insightful, have XP. But I still am going to take issue with one of your points: The fighter may not have mechanical means of making himself the target, but other classes have mechanical means of making themselves [I]not[/I] be the target, which is better. In an extreme case, if all the other 30' move PCs do is Dash directly away from the enemies while the 30' move enemies Dash directly towards them and the fighter Dashes to catch up and then deliver opportunity attacks... the PCs win that fight, because the fighter is the only one attacking. In practice most classes have better ways to not be attacked than just Dashing away, whether it is hiding behind cover (vs. missile foes) or Cunning Action/Expeditious Retreat or Spike Growth or something else. The fighter [I]does not want[/I] to be the target. That's wrongheaded. He wants everybody else not to be the target. In some situations these are similar things, but at a fundamental level they are different. [/QUOTE]

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