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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7625868" data-attributes="member: 996">In 5e, you just shoot in melee - you have disadvantage, but you can do it, and it's not an added danger over and above regular melee. It's not realistic, of course, neither are a lot of things.  It strikes me mainly as a compromise for playabilty and to make the game less tactically challenging or frustrating - faster combat, too.  I suspect it'd be OK in many other settings, too, even a little less unrealistic to shoot a gun in the middle of a fist fight with just Disadvantage, than a bow, even.The assumption here, is, I assume, some sort of 'fair fight' scenario with a similar-level character-classed enemy or CR monster.  Yeah, those fights aren't over instantly.  OTOH, if a bunch of much lower-CR creatures charge you across on open field, you'll be able to drop some of 'em - possibly as many as you can loose arrows in the time you have. Levels & hps fundamentally change how arrows, knives, swords, and being immolated work in D&D compared to RL, too.  While there's /plenty/ of close combat in a typical western or modern action adventure, the point about suppression is worth thinking about.  D&D declines to model a /lot/ of viable tactics, both medieval and modern, at least, formally.  (At some points, it did handle things like suppressions, but they were modestly obscure and not around long.)A 5e DM could always go all "goal & method" on suppression fire, though:  The player says "I snap off shots to keep their heads down" and the DM tells him to mark off X rounds, and narrates those enemies staying behind cover that round (or has the targets make WIS saves vs a DC based he comes up with, those who fail stay hunkered down - he chooses other actions for those who make it). Well, the player can decide to have the PC do that, whether the PC thinks he's safe or not is a matter of RP, and whether any of his enemies think there's no way they could have killed him is up to the DM.</blockquote>

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