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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 2097040" data-attributes="member: 1465">What makes you sure that Strength is the most obvious ability for melee attack rolls since the start? One could see that Dexterity should more realistically be the base ability, since the matter is swinging the weapon in the right way to aim the target.The Str-based melee rolls come IMO from a very old assumption (I suppose from OD&D) that BIG weapons require high strength, and the stronger you are the easier it is to swing them. How much is that true with a dagger? Is it realistic that a bodybuilder uses a dagger better?I wouldn't change how it works (I don't want to make Dex more powerful than it already is), but I'm just trying to say here that not everything, even the basic rules, are always so well-realistic if you think about it. A reach weapon is obviously longer than most other weapons, that's quite a fact, but so is a dagger effectively lighter than a greatclub... Why can't someone state that it should instead take a feat to use Str with a dagger, and "unlock" the Str-based use?</blockquote>