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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gorgon Zee" data-source="post: 9747208" data-attributes="member: 75787">Not completely convinced here. The difference between a ranged weapon and a melee weapon is almost certainly very important, even in games that have no cost for swapping.Examples I have run campaigns in:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Night's Black Agents (GUMSHOE) -- very combat heavy. I wanted to encourage swapping between weapons fluidly (to get a John Wick feel) so I added a house rule that you got an attack bonus when you switched weapons (freely). People were stabbing, shooting, then slamming furniture on opponents. Fun, and in-genre.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cal of Cthulhu. I'm not rules-expert on BRP, so maybe I just skipped the rule, but different weapons are HUGE in CoC. Rapiers and Shotguns share little in common.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fate. A lot depends on your world here, but I ran a campaign where every weapon had its own set of aspects that could be tagged, sometimes for free. Even in vanilla Fate, though, ranged versus melee is pretty important.</li> </ul>I'd think it's fairer to say that the games where weapon swapping does have some cost are ones where the system allows multiple actions in a player's turn. Most systems don't do that and so swapping weapons is just too fine-grained an action to account for.</blockquote>