Ridley's Cohort
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Cullain said:The biggest problem i have with this is that the archer has no penalty for not having a melee weapon. If the barbarian fights another melee combatant, it's assumed that the other melee combatant is parrying blows with his weapon. If the barbarian faces an archer, obviously the archer will not be parrying blows with his bow. But the barbarian is as likely to hit the melee combatant as the archer.
That bothers me too, but I do not think it is worth changing.
Lack of a melee weapon means you have no AoO available. That is not a trivial penalty in a close fight in 3e.
There are a lot of things in 3e that are offensively unrealistic, yet would be foolish to attempt to fix.