Timeline for Mini-dash as a general bonus action: what value would be balanced?
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| Nov 25, 2021 at 20:16 | comment | added | PotatoEngineer | @FerventHippo A CON save to move 5 more feet? That's a ridiculously high cost, and it takes table time to do the roll. Nah, the GM wants to make the players more powerful (and give a default option for bonus actions) without upsetting game balance too badly. A 5-foot step does that. GMs make rulings all the time -- some of them make the PCs more powerful, some rulings make PCs weaker. This one just happens to be in the players' favor. | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 16:28 | comment | added | FerventHippo | Could some additional cost be attached to this? E.g. a constitution saving throw or suffering exhaustion/damage? | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 2:35 | history | edited | PotatoEngineer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 24, 2021 at 23:16 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @PotatoEngineer: Yeah, agreed, if someone really wanted to do this, trying it without any limitations would make sense to start with because that's simplest. Only if it proved over-powered after playtesting would you want to start thinking about how to tone it down if you didn't want to get rid of it. In which case some of my random ideas might or might not be useful. | |
| Nov 24, 2021 at 22:07 | vote | accept | Totofofo | ||
| Nov 24, 2021 at 22:07 | comment | added | Totofofo | I'm accepting this answer as the only one bold enough to actually engage with the question and offer a balance assessment instead of defaulting to just "it's a free buff, therefore unbalanced." | |
| Nov 24, 2021 at 16:49 | comment | added | PotatoEngineer | @PeterCordes I'm not sure that the extra bookkeeping of tracking "per fight" (a term that exists nowhere else in 5E) is useful. I'm not sure that the "exploit" is going to come up often enough to justify the bookkeeping effort. | |
| Nov 24, 2021 at 10:30 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | Perhaps limited to not doing it 2 turns in a row? Or once or twice "per fight" might be a simple way to reduce bookkeeping for a houserule vs. per short rest. That would make it slightly less effective for chasing down someone making a fighting retreat or things like that, while still serving its purpose of letting people close distance as a one-off. (That unavoidably helps melee vs. range, since fights are short so only one use is enough). | |
| Nov 24, 2021 at 0:57 | history | answered | PotatoEngineer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |