Mauril Everleaf
2009-12-22, 01:03 AM
So, my group has adopted something of a houserule. We have ruled that characters get additional attacks at BAB +5, +10, +15 and +20, instead of +6, +11 and +16. This attack is essentially a +0 iterative.
Our reasoning is that lots of classes start out with a +0 BAB and still get an attack, so why not gain the next iterative when another +0 attack could be gained (rather than waiting until the +1).
Ultimately this helps out martial classes (which could probably use some help), and full BAB classes the most. We don't see it as that unbalancing...yet. We are just now level 5 and we (read: I) haven't been able to really sit down and analyze how this might effect things down the road.
Anyone have any thoughts?
With this houserule, a full BAB class at level 20 would have five attacks in a full attack (+20/+15/+10/+5/+0), so I guess the houserule breaks that maxim too. We don't plan to play past 20, so we probably won't worry about what happens at +25 and such.
Our reasoning is that lots of classes start out with a +0 BAB and still get an attack, so why not gain the next iterative when another +0 attack could be gained (rather than waiting until the +1).
Ultimately this helps out martial classes (which could probably use some help), and full BAB classes the most. We don't see it as that unbalancing...yet. We are just now level 5 and we (read: I) haven't been able to really sit down and analyze how this might effect things down the road.
Anyone have any thoughts?
With this houserule, a full BAB class at level 20 would have five attacks in a full attack (+20/+15/+10/+5/+0), so I guess the houserule breaks that maxim too. We don't plan to play past 20, so we probably won't worry about what happens at +25 and such.