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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 3321096" data-attributes="member: 1465">Why does this bother you so much?It certainly isn't a balance problem, so it must be that it's not &quot;realistic&quot; enough?Don't think of it as a STEP, think of it just as an adjustment in the battlefield. It doesn'e even need to be strictly considered as a separate action: it is of course separate for game's sake, but from the character's point of view it might happen at the same time as something else.Also consider that the 5ft step rule is a D&amp;D rule artifact. It is NOT necessary for any realism, it is just there because the designers thought it might be needed in certain tactical situations (particularly with regard to AoOs: the 5ft step is just a way to help getting away from AoOs before casting a spell or using a bow...).When you think about these things, there is no need to worry about whether a giant can &quot;step&quot; longer, because the giant doesn't actually &quot;step&quot; during a &quot;5ft step&quot;. Forget about the &quot;step&quot; and focus on the &quot;5ft&quot;&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> (Eventually I may agree with you when a 5ft step is taken by very small or very slow creatures, whose full speed itself is less than a 5ft step.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 3321096, member: 1465"] Why does this bother you so much? It certainly isn't a balance problem, so it must be that it's not "realistic" enough? Don't think of it as a STEP, think of it just as an adjustment in the battlefield. It doesn'e even need to be strictly considered as a separate action: it is of course separate for game's sake, but from the character's point of view it might happen at the same time as something else. Also consider that the 5ft step rule is a D&D rule artifact. It is NOT necessary for any realism, it is just there because the designers thought it might be needed in certain tactical situations (particularly with regard to AoOs: the 5ft step is just a way to help getting away from AoOs before casting a spell or using a bow...). When you think about these things, there is no need to worry about whether a giant can "step" longer, because the giant doesn't actually "step" during a "5ft step". Forget about the "step" and focus on the "5ft" :D (Eventually I may agree with you when a 5ft step is taken by very small or very slow creatures, whose full speed itself is less than a 5ft step.) [/QUOTE]

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