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<blockquote data-quote="Don Durito" data-source="post: 7843506" data-attributes="member: 6687260">I think that giving class incentives for characters to change up weapons is a bit of a bandaid solution and gets things the wrong way round.The issue is that D&amp;D is by it's nature divorced from reality.&nbsp; In reality you'd shoot a bow at anyone with a melee weapon and kite as much as you could - if you faced a foe with reach you'd make sure you had reach yourself.&nbsp; If you were in town you wouldn't be wearing armour and you'd carry something like a rapier for defence (you certainly wouldn't be lugging around a Greatsword or Halberd unless you were a member of the Watch or somebody's paid bodyguard).But in D&amp;D things get too complex if you try and enforce these things (see the much ingored old weapon vs armour tables), and some characters are virtually crippled if they face combat without their heavy armour. Besides, if you suggest that there may be situations (such as when facing a skeleton) that a rapier may be the best weapon than people will whine and stamp their feet and say &quot;why do you hate fighters?&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don Durito, post: 7843506, member: 6687260"] I think that giving class incentives for characters to change up weapons is a bit of a bandaid solution and gets things the wrong way round. The issue is that D&D is by it's nature divorced from reality. In reality you'd shoot a bow at anyone with a melee weapon and kite as much as you could - if you faced a foe with reach you'd make sure you had reach yourself. If you were in town you wouldn't be wearing armour and you'd carry something like a rapier for defence (you certainly wouldn't be lugging around a Greatsword or Halberd unless you were a member of the Watch or somebody's paid bodyguard). But in D&D things get too complex if you try and enforce these things (see the much ingored old weapon vs armour tables), and some characters are virtually crippled if they face combat without their heavy armour. Besides, if you suggest that there may be situations (such as when facing a skeleton) that a rapier may be the best weapon than people will whine and stamp their feet and say "why do you hate fighters?". [/QUOTE]

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