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<blockquote data-quote="mkletch" data-source="post: 481373" data-attributes="member: 3396">No, I did not.I have not called anybody hypocrite or called their posts valueless, regardless of what opinions I may hold about them.&nbsp; Other than a text scolding (hardly a violent attack by any measure), I have not attacked you or anybody else this day.&nbsp; That I defend my position vigorously is another matter entirely, but I do not confuse the two.You no longer threathen the area around you ... with that reach weapon.&nbsp; That is the distinction I am making.&nbsp; That section is talking about the reach weapons, and AoOs.&nbsp; If I forsake the reach weapon between actions (&quot;Until my next turn, I am merely holding the longspear and will use unarmed attacks for AoOs&quot;), I am giving up one thing (reach and a high-damage weapon) for a different thing (a low damage weapon, the use of which will provoke an AoO against me should I choose to use it) that is more valuable to me at the moment.That is the nature of most decisions in this game: what is best for me at the moment.&nbsp; I have seen very, very few reach weapons used, because the trade-offs are generally too high.&nbsp; As a DM, I have given out artifact-level reach weapons to characters, and they go unused.&nbsp; Why is this?-Fletch!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mkletch, post: 481373, member: 3396"] No, I did not. I have not called anybody hypocrite or called their posts valueless, regardless of what opinions I may hold about them. Other than a text scolding (hardly a violent attack by any measure), I have not attacked you or anybody else this day. That I defend my position vigorously is another matter entirely, but I do not confuse the two. You no longer threathen the area around you [b]... with that reach weapon[/b]. That is the distinction I am making. That section is talking about the reach weapons, and AoOs. If I forsake the reach weapon between actions ("Until my next turn, I am merely holding the longspear and will use unarmed attacks for AoOs"), I am giving up one thing (reach and a high-damage weapon) for a different thing (a low damage weapon, the use of which will provoke an AoO against me should I choose to use it) that is more valuable to me at the moment. That is the nature of most decisions in this game: what is best for me at the moment. I have seen very, very few reach weapons used, because the trade-offs are generally too high. As a DM, I have given out artifact-level reach weapons to characters, and they go unused. Why is this? -Fletch! [/QUOTE]

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