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<blockquote data-quote="Darklone" data-source="post: 3498319" data-attributes="member: 1372"><p>Excuse the words, it's not meant to be offensive. </p><p></p><p>What do you think defensive means? Not getting hit. Standing around while avoiding to get hit is in every martial arts discipline I know and tried just one thing: Asking to be defeated. Grabbing one or two enemies and whirling them around to keep the others away while bashing on them here and there, twisting arms and blocking their weapons (or sticking them into them) is much more effective. Plus: You get cover.</p><p></p><p>So yes, by the D&D rules Combat Expertise plus fighting defensively plus consideration of soft cover and protection against ranged attackers cause you are in melee is much more effective than lying prone and trying to be evasive. And yes, it's also very realistic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Darklone, post: 3498319, member: 1372"] Excuse the words, it's not meant to be offensive. What do you think defensive means? Not getting hit. Standing around while avoiding to get hit is in every martial arts discipline I know and tried just one thing: Asking to be defeated. Grabbing one or two enemies and whirling them around to keep the others away while bashing on them here and there, twisting arms and blocking their weapons (or sticking them into them) is much more effective. Plus: You get cover. So yes, by the D&D rules Combat Expertise plus fighting defensively plus consideration of soft cover and protection against ranged attackers cause you are in melee is much more effective than lying prone and trying to be evasive. And yes, it's also very realistic. [/QUOTE]
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