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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 4568911" data-attributes="member: 40176">As with OAs in general, the balancing factor is not in the carrying out of the OA, but in the threat of one. The fact that you risk being subjected to an OA when you make a ranged attack or move whilst adjacent to an opponent is a deterrent against taking those actions.With a character who lacks an armed melee attack, that deterrent is much reduced, but it is still there. That character still provides some degree of discouragement against enemies pushing past them or making ranged attacks whilst engaged with them.If you remove that, you do somewhat change the balance of the battlefield. Not necessarily for the worse, but you are removing part of ranged characters' ability to tactically control the movement of the opposition.</blockquote>