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<blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 2757116" data-attributes="member: 20805">I will echo the concerns that changing the 5'step so that it draws AoO is a Bad Thing (tm)Using Thanee's proposed 5' step of opportunity is interesting.. Eberron has a Feat called Pursue that mirrors this, altho with the addition of burning an Action Point.&nbsp;DnD Combat is, for better or worse, a generalized approximation of realtime combat but into a framework of turn based actions. In this setting, 5' steps and AoO add some emulation of simulataneous action, but it is still turn based.&nbsp;I see the OPs issue being one of turn based vs simultaneous, and he wants to fix what {to him} is the most glaring artifact of this. The suggestion to further parse the round doesn't really fix the issue, simply makes it smaller <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;Changing the 5' step can, depending on the group, either be a huge change, or a minor one. IMC it would only alter in melee tactical positioning, for flanking and such. My ranged folks either stay out or draw swords....&nbsp;Adding the Pursue option could get interesting...Either way I don't see it breaking the game. Heck, for the first year or so of 3.x, half the world didn't use AoO's cause they were so hard to understand!General Barron, I get the feeling that you may be underestimating the ramifications of 'minor' alterations to 3.x games. The horribly nice thing about the 3.x system is that everything meshes quite nicely.. and a butterfly's wing beat causes hurricanes on the other side of the globe...those vocal against the change have seen this artifact of the system at work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Primitive Screwhead, post: 2757116, member: 20805"] I will echo the concerns that changing the 5'step so that it draws AoO is a Bad Thing (tm) Using Thanee's proposed 5' step of opportunity is interesting.. Eberron has a Feat called Pursue that mirrors this, altho with the addition of burning an Action Point. DnD Combat is, for better or worse, a generalized approximation of realtime combat but into a framework of turn based actions. In this setting, 5' steps and AoO add some emulation of simulataneous action, but it is still turn based. I see the OPs issue being one of turn based vs simultaneous, and he wants to fix what {to him} is the most glaring artifact of this. The suggestion to further parse the round doesn't really fix the issue, simply makes it smaller :) Changing the 5' step can, depending on the group, either be a huge change, or a minor one. IMC it would only alter in melee tactical positioning, for flanking and such. My ranged folks either stay out or draw swords.... Adding the Pursue option could get interesting... Either way I don't see it breaking the game. Heck, for the first year or so of 3.x, half the world didn't use AoO's cause they were so hard to understand! General Barron, I get the feeling that you may be underestimating the ramifications of 'minor' alterations to 3.x games. The horribly nice thing about the 3.x system is that everything meshes quite nicely.. and a butterfly's wing beat causes hurricanes on the other side of the globe...those vocal against the change have seen this artifact of the system at work. [/QUOTE]

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