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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5721780" data-attributes="member: 19675">Your experience and mine vary wildly, then.In a bog standard fight, my high Dex characters will have better initiative, on average.&nbsp; That's just mechanics.&nbsp; And that translates into hitting more foes first, which means doing damage first, which means fewer foes to face doing damage to you &amp; yours.&nbsp; IOW, you will be more effective at killing foes before they can hurt you or your allies than the low-Dex guy.&nbsp; That may only mean 1-3 rounds of combat duration's worth of difference, but it does matter.In a bog standard fight, I will be using my PC's abilities as best I can, and for a Dex-based martial PC, that will include some form of ranged attack to gain an advantage in HP, battlefield control, or both.&nbsp; Why? Because playing a Str18 Dex18 guy the same way as a Str18 Dex3 guy doesn't make sense.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5721780, member: 19675"] Your experience and mine vary wildly, then. In a bog standard fight, my high Dex characters [I]will[/I] have better initiative, on average. That's just mechanics. And that translates into hitting more foes first, which means doing damage first, which means fewer foes to face doing damage to you & yours. IOW, you will be more effective at killing foes before they can hurt you or your allies than the low-Dex guy. That may only mean 1-3 rounds of combat duration's worth of difference, but it does matter. In a bog standard fight, I will be using my PC's abilities as best I can, and for a Dex-based martial PC, that [I]will[/I] include some form of ranged attack to gain an advantage in HP, battlefield control, or both. Why? Because playing a Str18 Dex18 guy the same way as a Str18 Dex3 guy doesn't make sense. [/QUOTE]

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