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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8589917" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Yep. What I was told was, "In a serious knife fight, everyone bleeds. Don't want to bleed, find a way out of the knife fight. Period." And unlike with firearms, bumrushing someone from 10ft away doesn't make it hard for them to aim at you before you reach them. Anyone trained to fight will stab you by accident more often than fail to stab you, in that circumstance. But for reasons I am not qualified to confidently speak on, but I know from reading are related to how our perceptions and reactions work, most shots fired at a charging assailant from within about 10-20ft miss. A swordsman rushes a gunfighter from close range, they're more likely to both need serious medical attention, but ultimately survive, than any other result. Well, assuming either modern or magical medicine, and that neither of them are down to straight murder the disarmed and bleeding guy. With no outside interference at all, it becomes way more likely the both die, one quick and one slow. All of which is to say, none of the things that make the two types of weapon realistically distinct in this scenario are fun or broad enough to try to satisfyingly model in 5e dnd with any reasonable level of simplicity.</blockquote>