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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4964150" data-attributes="member: 11821">2e speed factors were kinda ridiculous.  Believe it or not, I'll take 1e here, any day.By the 2e rules, a guy with a dagger gets to attack before a guy with a greatsword nine times out of ten.  In real life, the guy with the dagger gets cut in half before he can close with the guy with the greatsword. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />On the other hand, 1e has a much more "simulationist" approach.  In any charge, the one with the longer weapon goes first.  After you close the distance, speed factor rarely matters - but in some cases, it can matter quite a lot; then your dagger guy might get a few choice stabs on the greatsword guy before the greatsword guy gets to react.  (In many games, this was houseruled so speed factor is really just a tiebreaker.)So yeah.  IMO, it's backwards.  A small weapon is generally disadvantaged in all but the closest combat, and while I'm dandy with ignoring disadvantages for flavor reasons, I'm sketchy on giving advantages to them instead. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-O</blockquote>

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