Originally Posted by
PairO'Dice Lost
And control over tactics is a good thing, which is not incompatible with preventing stun spamming. You obviously wouldn't put stuns and such at AC+4, you'd put "half speed" or "deafened for a round," saving stuns and other SoLs for +10 or so. In fact, this approach makes stuns less common, because instead of just getting it when you hit with a 19, you'd need to hit with AC+10, which means it's rarer for any enemies with AC above 9 (i.e. most of them), and the same for the other numbers.