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<blockquote data-quote="Tales and Chronicles" data-source="post: 7283174" data-attributes="member: 6871653"><p>When I'm a player, I tend to theorycraft many characters: peerless achers, eccentric mages, know-it-all jack-of-all-trade etc. In the end, at the actual table, I always end up a melee character because it feels that ranged opponents are much rarer and that half my character sheet is useless since I'm rarely attacked. I find it boring when my HP hasnt changed during an entire session or my defenses/saves are not used: I want to be damaged, grabbed, thrown around, make death saving throw, bitten with poison or diseases, this is how you get to feel really heroic. I also often see ranged players become distracted outside their turn since they feel the turn-to-turn shifting of the battlefield matters less if your 2 full-turns move-dash away from the melee where the actual fight happens. That's also why when I Dm, I use enemy archers/skirmisher a lot with a good dose of magic-users.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tales and Chronicles, post: 7283174, member: 6871653"] When I'm a player, I tend to theorycraft many characters: peerless achers, eccentric mages, know-it-all jack-of-all-trade etc. In the end, at the actual table, I always end up a melee character because it feels that ranged opponents are much rarer and that half my character sheet is useless since I'm rarely attacked. I find it boring when my HP hasnt changed during an entire session or my defenses/saves are not used: I want to be damaged, grabbed, thrown around, make death saving throw, bitten with poison or diseases, this is how you get to feel really heroic. I also often see ranged players become distracted outside their turn since they feel the turn-to-turn shifting of the battlefield matters less if your 2 full-turns move-dash away from the melee where the actual fight happens. That's also why when I Dm, I use enemy archers/skirmisher a lot with a good dose of magic-users. [/QUOTE]
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