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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 281540" data-attributes="member: 4720">True.&nbsp; Ranged combat is the optimal solution, but it's nice to have melee to fall back on.&nbsp; It would take many feats for a straight fighter, but a dextrous Ranger or Ranger/Fighter would only have to spend one feat to drastically improve his melee effectiveness: Weapon Finesse(short sword).&nbsp; I do generally agree with you.&nbsp; I also like variations like bow feats instead of the TWF feats for Rangers.&nbsp; It fits better with the archetype, IMO, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms, isn't it?&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I also agree with Jollyninja who mentioned that using two weapons that are both larger than shortswords seems like it should be unwieldy.&nbsp; I took a little bit of kali, and it there a lot of moves you can pull off with two short weapons that would end in you taking off one of your own arms (or your own head) if you tried them with two larger weapons.&nbsp; And even with the world's most perfectly balanced masterwork longswords, you'd have to have arms like a gorilla to keep them out of each other's way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 281540, member: 4720"] True. Ranged combat is the optimal solution, but it's nice to have melee to fall back on. It would take many feats for a straight fighter, but a dextrous Ranger or Ranger/Fighter would only have to spend one feat to drastically improve his melee effectiveness: Weapon Finesse(short sword). I do generally agree with you. I also like variations like bow feats instead of the TWF feats for Rangers. It fits better with the archetype, IMO, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms, isn't it? ;) I also agree with Jollyninja who mentioned that using two weapons that are both larger than shortswords seems like it should be unwieldy. I took a little bit of kali, and it there a lot of moves you can pull off with two short weapons that would end in you taking off one of your own arms (or your own head) if you tried them with two larger weapons. And even with the world's most perfectly balanced masterwork longswords, you'd have to have arms like a gorilla to keep them out of each other's way. [/QUOTE]

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