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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Distracted DM" data-source="post: 9473130" data-attributes="member: 6894926">Continuing a bit more tonight, let's see...Expanded Special Melee Attacks: Grappling and shoving are common, these are MORE. Before I actually read further, I'll say that I'd be concerned with inundating players with action options. I've been running A5E for 1-2yrs now and it's too much more some players- there are SO MANY features! Adding MORE attack options... well for vanilla DnD/ToV maybe it's great? I like the concept.Dirty tricks, overrunning foes, stealing, moving enemies, heavier shoves and tumbling. Each of these has "if you won by 5 or more" or "if you fail by more than 5" that makes it seem pretty cool... probably a GREAT addition to 5e/TotV. Probably too much to add to A5E with its many martial maneuvers. I really like that if the target beats the PC's attempt by a lot they get to punish them for the attempt (ex: overrun, they can knock you prone).Hitting Cover: tldr if you miss the target cuz of cover but would hit the cover-provider's AC, you hit the target. I've thought about this before but I've never been sure if it's worthwhile... has a fun piece of accompanying art <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Injuries: gives reasons a creature might sustain an injury.INJURY TABLE! Oh I could use this for my Dark Sun-inspired game. I've been using DCC tables but this is nice too, and it includes 5e mechanics. Ha, infection! Wow. Oh, it's removed with magical healing... a lot of these are. What group won't have access to a single instance of magical healing? Potions are magical healing, yeah? I guess it's a miracle, blah. Holy crud these include limb loss! Oh man, perfect.Morale! Rules for morale, suggestions when creatures might run, and effects of a group and leader on morale, and how your creatures can rally after broken morale. Someone's been playing miniatures games :'D Fun stuff, I usually wing these rolls but the rules presented are pretty similar to "winging it" "rules;" I guess they're common sense.Parry and Defensive Combat: Oh, interesting? I think a lot of this stuff is more useful for smaller numbers of elite creatures, say FOUL BLACKGUARDS, because managing these little choices of multiple creatures at once would be kind of a pain in the arse. I think the design mechanics are pretty sound, though.Parting Shots: Creature retreating from combat taking parting shots- in real life it's probably effective, but in DnD if the party has forced the enemy into retreat ... a few parting shots won't deter them from running down the foe to prevent survivors from warning others :'DThat's the end of the Advanced Combat section, but fear not for there are MORE options and variant rules later on in the book! Next section is Advanced Exploration, including Unusual Environments, PUZZLES, and Additional Rules. Final thought on this section: I love how the book really seems to suggest (to my mind) that each table is going to be its own experience, it's YOUR game. Here are a load of optional rules, see what fits your group... because I really doubt you'll be using ALL of these :'D way too much. Some of these will jump out at some folks and not others... but they all seem pretty mechanically sound, ya know? Even the Called Shot one.</blockquote>

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