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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6981599" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Not great, obviously. I never claimed otherwise. I just responded to (nitpicked really) a claim about what happens "at least once in every combat."And I don't have a "side". I don't believe in taking sides. I do have a perspective.Losing Archery to-hit is usually preferable to disadvantage. The "magic bow" thing, well, that will vary by campaign. In a game that I run, your bow is likely to be nonmagical, and so is your rapier, so no difference there.Tankiness is not relevant to my comment (you were already assuming the archer was in melee), but for the record, high AC is pretty tanky. Mage Armor + Dex 20 is AC 18, +Shield is AC 23, +an actual shield would be AC 25 although it takes an action to don one. Plus Second Wind. I have never noticed archers who off-tank having any particular problems engaging in melee. (This is one of the many reasons why I am not a fan of Crossbow Expert--it seems unnecessary as well as cheesey.)</blockquote>