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<blockquote data-quote="CheezyRamen" data-source="post: 7110796" data-attributes="member: 6879767">Sorry, that was more me trying to wrap my head around the idea of ranged being better. Let's take an example. Dwarf plate axe fighter against Human leather bow fighter.I would say that if it were 1 v 1 in an open field, yes the Human would have the advantage as long as the dwarven fighter had no other means to also bring his attack to a ranged attack. Say he had a throwing axe, not only is his high strength modifier going to help him hit, its going to be easier to hit the human because of his lack of armor (tho his dex may help him a few points.) if you stick that human in heavy armor, he loses that dexterity bonus altogether. I admit that he could simply use Thrown weapons as well but as a human he would then be slower than the dwarf unless he had str 15+. Then his thrown ranged weapons do NOT measure to a great axe/battleaxe w.e melee weapon you want most likely.I am just not sure where ranged = better</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CheezyRamen, post: 7110796, member: 6879767"] Sorry, that was more me trying to wrap my head around the idea of ranged being better. Let's take an example. Dwarf plate axe fighter against Human leather bow fighter. I would say that if it were 1 v 1 in an open field, yes the Human would have the advantage as long as the dwarven fighter had no other means to also bring his attack to a ranged attack. Say he had a throwing axe, not only is his high strength modifier going to help him hit, its going to be easier to hit the human because of his lack of armor (tho his dex may help him a few points.) if you stick that human in heavy armor, he loses that dexterity bonus altogether. I admit that he could simply use Thrown weapons as well but as a human he would then be slower than the dwarf unless he had str 15+. Then his thrown ranged weapons do NOT measure to a great axe/battleaxe w.e melee weapon you want most likely. I am just not sure where ranged = better [/QUOTE]

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