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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 1202879" data-attributes="member: 5890">No, he doesn't get 4 goes to everyones one go.He gets one action which may or may not strike 4 times.There is a very big difference, and it is this:If you're striking 4 times, you are very limited in what you can do - you can take a 5 foot step before or after, and you may (if the situation warrants it) replace attacks with special maneuvers, such as disarming or sundering or tripping.However most of the time, you'll just roll, know whether you hit or missed, and read off the damage to the DM, before finding out whether you're moving onto another target.If you did the same thing with (say) a wizard, allowing him 4 spellcastings, then the game would slow down interminably as he picked out the appropriate spell to use for each attack, and worked out viable targets etc etc.In fact, if you allowed movement between the attacks in a full attack, that would drastically slow down the game as the fighter worked out how to cherry-pick his targets.</blockquote>