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<blockquote data-quote="Corwin" data-source="post: 6987504" data-attributes="member: 1560"><p>How about an easy and obvious one? When your 4-bolts-per-turn archer runs out of ammo. The GWF doesn't need ammo to swing his sword.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I like how you keep saying that the archer can whip out one of the many melee weapons he needs to carry in battle, for use in threatening OAs (now its a rapier instead of a dagger), just to deal fractional damage compared to the GWF. But when the GWF wielding a longbow or throwing a javelin, on the rare instance he can't engage the enemy in melee, its folly. And you wonder why some of us take exception to your "math."</p><p></p><p>Another hilarious little Schrodinger's Fighter, white-roomery you just tried to pull. You actually tried to sell us the idea of this hand crossbow archer having elected to take booming blade or green flame blade as one of their few cantrips. Seriously? You just did that? I hope everyone else caught that. Too funny.</p><p></p><p></p><p>In the same manner you do? Okay. Your hand crossbow archer and a GWF are 500 feet away from the enemy on a grassy plain. The GWF pulls out his longbow and starts shooting. Your hand crossbow fella gets to watch impotently because he has a max of 120 feet of range with his peashooter. The GWF is dealing 100% more damage for many rounds. He wins the comparison. My maths just proved that hand crossbow archers deal the least damage of anyone ever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Corwin, post: 6987504, member: 1560"] How about an easy and obvious one? When your 4-bolts-per-turn archer runs out of ammo. The GWF doesn't need ammo to swing his sword. I like how you keep saying that the archer can whip out one of the many melee weapons he needs to carry in battle, for use in threatening OAs (now its a rapier instead of a dagger), just to deal fractional damage compared to the GWF. But when the GWF wielding a longbow or throwing a javelin, on the rare instance he can't engage the enemy in melee, its folly. And you wonder why some of us take exception to your "math." Another hilarious little Schrodinger's Fighter, white-roomery you just tried to pull. You actually tried to sell us the idea of this hand crossbow archer having elected to take booming blade or green flame blade as one of their few cantrips. Seriously? You just did that? I hope everyone else caught that. Too funny. In the same manner you do? Okay. Your hand crossbow archer and a GWF are 500 feet away from the enemy on a grassy plain. The GWF pulls out his longbow and starts shooting. Your hand crossbow fella gets to watch impotently because he has a max of 120 feet of range with his peashooter. The GWF is dealing 100% more damage for many rounds. He wins the comparison. My maths just proved that hand crossbow archers deal the least damage of anyone ever. [/QUOTE]
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