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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 6194976" data-attributes="member: 158">To parse in 3e terms: as a racial ability, kobolds in 4e could take a 5 ft step as a swift action - which is a big deal because in 4 e a 5 ft step was a move action.Not in the context of the system - most in-combat &quot;teleports&quot; were basically once per combat 20 or 30 foot &quot;jaunts&quot; almost like a really short range dimension door - great for tactical surprises. The rest of it is cool in the context of the game rules, but nothing crazy, because once per encounter or reasonable damage totals are often the balancing factor.In fact, while there used to be a lot of misperception of 4e as overpowered, in truth many thiings were scaled back dramatically compared to any other version of D &amp; D - they significantly hampered tactics like scry-buff-teleport, and nobody was flying persistently until about 16th level or so.Personally, i firmly believe the Next system can get that tactical cool feel, but we' ll probably have to wait for an expansion or two to get it ALL back.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 6194976, member: 158"] To parse in 3e terms: as a racial ability, kobolds in 4e could take a 5 ft step as a swift action - which is a big deal because in 4 e a 5 ft step was a move action. Not in the context of the system - most in-combat "teleports" were basically once per combat 20 or 30 foot "jaunts" almost like a really short range dimension door - great for tactical surprises. The rest of it is cool in the context of the game rules, but nothing crazy, because once per encounter or reasonable damage totals are often the balancing factor. In fact, while there used to be a lot of misperception of 4e as overpowered, in truth many thiings were scaled back dramatically compared to any other version of D & D - they significantly hampered tactics like scry-buff-teleport, and nobody was flying persistently until about 16th level or so. Personally, i firmly believe the Next system can get that tactical cool feel, but we' ll probably have to wait for an expansion or two to get it ALL back. [/QUOTE]

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