Charging against a polearm

[phiwum]

Originally Posted by Skarg

It really seems to me that:

If you're trying to build an argument that the literal meaning of "attack" is significant to the RAW, but then you want to ignore the entire RAW rule about how you can change your option and the only limit is how far you moved, that's not talking about the RAW any more. Denying the ability to change options makes it a house rule, at which point there's no point arguing about the RAW.

I don't think that there's much point for us to argue over whether your rule on polearms is RAW or not. That I disagree that it's a reasonable literal reading doesn't matter much. I've become convinced that it's the better reading, whether we regard it as RAW or a house rule to make RAW more sensible.

You're right that I entered the thread trying to focus on what RAW says, but I've agreed with you and Lars that the better concern is sensible gameplay. So at this point, I'd just as soon drop our disagreement over what RAW says and doesn't.