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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pax" data-source="post: 505390" data-attributes="member: 6875">Melee characters also have TWF, which kicks in (at high penalties) without any feats required -- and with little or NO penalty, for Rangers ... still with no feats required.  TWF eventually leads to being able to full-attack with (at epic levels) each weapon (eight attacks in total, more with Speed-enhanced weapons).Archers using ranged attacks inside an enemy's threatened zone provoke AoO's, melee fighters typically do not.Allright, this one I agree with, at least.  I've considered making GMW (and MW) affect no more than 5 or 10 projectile weapons, not enough to constitute an entire supply, but enough to let the spellcasters provide for a temporary gap in available magic weaponry for part of an encounter.So use flying monsters.  Or INTELLIGENT monsters, with their OWN ranged weapons.And with inelligent (or even many semi-intelligent) foes, if the encounter is within 30 feet, then something WILL rush up to threaten the archer in melee range.I'll take my Fighter (10) / Duellist (10) pre-Epic "Armor Class Munckin" concept up against any Fighter (10) / "Archery PrCl" (10) character any day.  The point being, when rollign to hit ... if you have to ask, the answer is "no."  And yes, the Fighter/Duellist is 99% a melee character (their high dexterity helps offset the lack of ranged-oriented feats).  AC of 80-ish, without a single CUSTOM magic item ... all off-the-shelf.Tactical failing on the DM's part, and probably alack of viable terrain for the NPC's to use against the ranged fighters.  Especially if most of the encounters are occurring at the 30-foot-or-less mark.Specialty tactics versus melee fighters: get an obstacle that limits their ability to get to you, and rain arrows (etc) on them.  One prime example of this is, a wall ... with arrowslits.  You know, like the ones around -castles- ... ?Any weapon which gives a specific advantage on the field of battle, as an inevitable result, will spawn specific counter-tactics.  For melee combat, this usually manifests in movement patterns, weapon choices, attack-type choices (disarm, sunder, whatever).Against ranged combat, it usually involves moving in a way that makes maximum use of available cover and/or concealment, or, answering in kind -- with massed volleys of ranged attacks!</blockquote>

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