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Message: <blockquote data-quote="F4NBOY" data-source="post: 3777463" data-attributes="member: 54553">What about ranged attacks? Magical attacks? Touch attacks? Unarmed attacks? Bites? Traps? Trip attacks? What if a giant with a colossal great sword attacks you? Do you think your longsword should give you any defense against that tree-sized sword?I've practiced a little fencing and I know how important a sword is defensively, but D&D is much greater than simple fencing duels.I think the best way to represent that mechanically is creating a feat that gives anyone using a weapon, depending on the weapon, +1 parry bonus to AC against melee attackers.In Arcana Evolved, some weapons give a AC bonus when you fight defensively. That works pretty well.Or create a separate mechanic like the Block Talent from SWSE. You can make a Skill check to completely block a melee attack. The DC is the atackers roll. For each additional block in the round you gain a -5 penalty on the skill check. That's a REAL parry <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=":)" /> but in a game like D&D it would slow the game too much. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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