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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riley37" data-source="post: 6466264" data-attributes="member: 6786839">The melee combat in the Society for Creative Anachronism is not 100% realistic; for example, they avoid actual maiming and death. It's still often a reasonable point of comparison. SCA fighters using "sword and board" (sword and shield) don't quickly switch to a two-handed grip, strike, then go back to using their shield.Try it sometime. I bet that your foe will find an opportunity to attack, while you're switching.If you argue that D&D is a re-creation of heroic fantasy stories, not a simulation of real life: would Salvatore write a story in which an enemy used this tactic to hit Drizzt with a two-handed strike, then use their shield to block Drizzt's counterstrike? Would Tolkien, or Zelazny, or Le Guin?</blockquote>