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<blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 548183" data-attributes="member: 3146"><p>Not guaranteed by a long shot. I've seen far more characters with boots of speed or slippers of spider-climbing than with boots of striding and springing. Maybe it was different before the DMG erratta jacked up the price but they're hardly ubiquitous. Now, maybe the spring attack rogue would have boots of striding and springing because it's more advantageous to the character concept than Haste is (haste doesn't combine very well with spring attack if you use spring attack to enter and then get out of your foe's threatened area).</p><p></p><p>In any case, even with the boots a single classed human rogue would only have 60 feet to move in a single round which would be thirty feet toward the dragon and thirty feet away if he's trying to keep his distance. Now, since large dragons are long creatures that commonly have a 15 foot reach, all the dragon needs to do is gain ten feet by adjusting which way it's oriented (lengthwise) before the 5 foot step and the rogue is within threatened range for a full attack. That's a pretty cheesy tactic but it could work.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I see we have a buyer for the myth of progress here. "It's the way of the future so it must be true/right/good idea."</p><p></p><p>Just because something is going to happen doesn't make it good or wise. And sometimes it turns out that those prophecies about the future don't come true after all. So I think I'm better off making my own mind up about what's a good idea and what isn't and leaving the future to sort itself out. Maybe it will be better, maybe it will be worse, maybe the future will be the same. But it's not better just because it's more modern. Unless of course you think Spam is better than Sirloin steak. (Spam is certainly a more recent invention.)</p><p></p><p>My mini-rant aside, if this is another d20 Modern, Spycraft, etc analogy, I remain unconvinced. Different settings demand different rulesets. There are plenty of different systems which didn't combine Ambidexterity and Two Weapon Fighting (Star Wars and D20 Call of Cthulu come to mind).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elder-Basilisk, post: 548183, member: 3146"] Not guaranteed by a long shot. I've seen far more characters with boots of speed or slippers of spider-climbing than with boots of striding and springing. Maybe it was different before the DMG erratta jacked up the price but they're hardly ubiquitous. Now, maybe the spring attack rogue would have boots of striding and springing because it's more advantageous to the character concept than Haste is (haste doesn't combine very well with spring attack if you use spring attack to enter and then get out of your foe's threatened area). In any case, even with the boots a single classed human rogue would only have 60 feet to move in a single round which would be thirty feet toward the dragon and thirty feet away if he's trying to keep his distance. Now, since large dragons are long creatures that commonly have a 15 foot reach, all the dragon needs to do is gain ten feet by adjusting which way it's oriented (lengthwise) before the 5 foot step and the rogue is within threatened range for a full attack. That's a pretty cheesy tactic but it could work. [b][/B] I see we have a buyer for the myth of progress here. "It's the way of the future so it must be true/right/good idea." Just because something is going to happen doesn't make it good or wise. And sometimes it turns out that those prophecies about the future don't come true after all. So I think I'm better off making my own mind up about what's a good idea and what isn't and leaving the future to sort itself out. Maybe it will be better, maybe it will be worse, maybe the future will be the same. But it's not better just because it's more modern. Unless of course you think Spam is better than Sirloin steak. (Spam is certainly a more recent invention.) My mini-rant aside, if this is another d20 Modern, Spycraft, etc analogy, I remain unconvinced. Different settings demand different rulesets. There are plenty of different systems which didn't combine Ambidexterity and Two Weapon Fighting (Star Wars and D20 Call of Cthulu come to mind). [/QUOTE]
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