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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 4719164" data-attributes="member: 114">I'm afraid I don't believe this at all.Anecdotal evidence part 1: A friend and I once tried a sparring experiment. I had a 3ft bamboo cane, and if I could touch any part of him with it, he would be dead. He had a standard 10ft halberd. In about 10 minutes sparring I couldn't touch him. I couldn't even come close.evidence part 2: back in 1983, the BBC did a series on 'way of the warrior' examining a number of martial arts styles. In the one focussing on Japan, a modern kenjutsu master made the point that fighting with a sword against a bo, spear or naginata - basically anything that had reach on you - was incredibly difficult. He found it almost impossible to beat any of his students who are wielding a longer weapon than him if they have a modicum of training. The idea of getting 'inside the reach' of a weapon is meaningless for anything other than a 15'+ pike!Essentially D&amp;D has always grossly underestimated the significance of reach in melee.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 4719164, member: 114"] I'm afraid I don't believe this at all. Anecdotal evidence part 1: A friend and I once tried a sparring experiment. I had a 3ft bamboo cane, and if I could touch any part of him with it, he would be dead. He had a standard 10ft halberd. In about 10 minutes sparring I couldn't touch him. I couldn't even come close. evidence part 2: back in 1983, the BBC did a series on 'way of the warrior' examining a number of martial arts styles. In the one focussing on Japan, a modern kenjutsu master made the point that fighting with a sword against a bo, spear or naginata - basically anything that had reach on you - was incredibly difficult. He found it almost impossible to beat any of his students who are wielding a longer weapon than him if they have a modicum of training. The idea of getting 'inside the reach' of a weapon is meaningless for anything other than a 15'+ pike! Essentially D&D has always grossly underestimated the significance of reach in melee. [/QUOTE]

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