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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2121684" data-attributes="member: 707">Definitely I'd give the win to myself.  But I do agree with other posters who've pointed out some of the flaws in this comparison.I don't mean to say that dexterity isn't important in combat.  As I said earlier in the thread, D&D's combat system is a simplistic abstract that assigns very complex concepts very simple rolls.  In real combat, certainly dexterity has a role.  My point though, then and now, is that strength will play a larger one.  Not only does strength bear upon the force of one's blow, but it also bears upon the speed of the blow and the accuracy of that blow, things that non-combatants often associate with dexterity but in actual sparring are largely also due to strength.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  True enough.  I'm not trying to downplay dexterity, really.  But the OP originally wanted to know why D&D chose strength to be the linked attribute to attack bonus.  He couldn't understand why strength would be more important to actually hitting your foe, than dexterity, which is, in D&D, is the "accuracy stat" as illustrated by the fact that ranged weapons add dex to attack, and Weapon Finesse, described as the precision placement of blows over force, also allows dex to apply to attack.  My response was merely an attempt to explain why, IMO, strength is the perfect stat to (simplistically) be the main attribute linked to a melee attack.From listening to stories from my Dad (who's been in his fair share of fights), I'd say there might have been a little of the "small man syndrome" here.  A lot of the time, a smaller man is simply more berserk in a fight, because he is the smaller man.  He knows that if he doesn't go for broke, he's going to get pummeled.  Conversely a bigger man has a natural confidence that he won't get beaten, until that smaller man beats him within an inch of his life.Sorry about not responding earlier.  After things took a turn on the previous page, I figured I wasn't going to have much to contribute here. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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