“I Attack the Goblin.” D&D Combat Can Be Much Better Than This

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap with a Yellow belt in Wado Ryu Karate. Lol. TL;DR:D&D martial classes get stuck saying "I attack" while spellcasters get flashy options. The fix isn't a house rule, it's narration. Steal moves from a real martial art (or fake it with a simple formula) and every swing becomes a scene instead of a dice roll.IntroductionA legitimate criticism often leveled at D&D is that the magic users get all these interesting attacks with an array of spells, whereas martial classes just attack.The counter of course, is that there’s nothing stopping you from narrating a martial attack however you like. But is that fair? Do most people know how to describe the different moves a master swordsman or martial artist would make?I Do KarateI’m currently a player in a Curse of Strahd campaign, and for the first time ever - I’m playing a Monk. Almost immediately, I was faced with the aforementioned problem. But then I realised that not only do I know a whole bunch…