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<blockquote data-quote="phindar" data-source="post: 3320990" data-attributes="member: 37198">I apologize if this has been brought up before, but its been at the back of my mind for awhile and I thought I'd see what other people thought.&nbsp; In D&amp;D, everybody (well, almost everybody) gets the 5' Step.&nbsp; It's free, it doesn't provoke, its a good little maneuver.Here's my problem.&nbsp; A human takes a 5' Step.&nbsp; A house cat takes a 5' Step.&nbsp; A storm giant takes a 5' Step.&nbsp; The Tarrasque takes a 5' Step.&nbsp; That seems a little odd to me, as the cat is leaping many times its own body length, while the giant is barely creeping foward at all.&nbsp; I am toying with the idea of making the 5' Step a Single Step, and making it equal to the base of the creature.&nbsp; So house cats get 2.5' Steps, humans keep the 5', ogres get a 10', storm giants a 15', and so on.&nbsp; Naturally, this makes larger creatures more powerful, a lot harder to creep away from, and gives them a greater distance they can move and full attack.&nbsp; It makes big creatures scarier, but that's the effect I'm going for.&nbsp; What sort of CR increase (or decrease, for smaller creatures) do you think this would entail?&nbsp; +1 per Size Category?&nbsp; Would creatures smaller than Medium just keep the 5' Step for simplicity (no 2.5' gridded battlemats, after all), and to avoid nerfing smaller characters?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="phindar, post: 3320990, member: 37198"] I apologize if this has been brought up before, but its been at the back of my mind for awhile and I thought I'd see what other people thought. In D&D, everybody (well, almost everybody) gets the 5' Step. It's free, it doesn't provoke, its a good little maneuver. Here's my problem. A human takes a 5' Step. A house cat takes a 5' Step. A storm giant takes a 5' Step. The Tarrasque takes a 5' Step. That seems a little odd to me, as the cat is leaping many times its own body length, while the giant is barely creeping foward at all. I am toying with the idea of making the 5' Step a Single Step, and making it equal to the base of the creature. So house cats get 2.5' Steps, humans keep the 5', ogres get a 10', storm giants a 15', and so on. Naturally, this makes larger creatures more powerful, a lot harder to creep away from, and gives them a greater distance they can move and full attack. It makes big creatures scarier, but that's the effect I'm going for. What sort of CR increase (or decrease, for smaller creatures) do you think this would entail? +1 per Size Category? Would creatures smaller than Medium just keep the 5' Step for simplicity (no 2.5' gridded battlemats, after all), and to avoid nerfing smaller characters? [/QUOTE]

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