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<blockquote data-quote="Walter_J" data-source="post: 163217" data-attributes="member: 2938">To follow up on Zhure's answer(s).On contemporary Earth, melee weapons and hand-to-hand combat are still very popular.&nbsp; Most military people are issued a knife and trained how to use it.&nbsp; Studies in hand-to-hand are very popular, even outside the military, be it karate, kung-fu, judo, etc...Historically, once someone gets a hold of you (i.e. melee combat) a firearm isn't of much use.&nbsp; The Highland Charge was a serious pain to the British army.&nbsp; The solution?&nbsp; They turned their muskets into spears via bayonet (they may have been rifled at the time, can't recall).&nbsp; The d20 system supports this with AoO for using a missle weapon in melee.&nbsp; What better way to follow up on that AoO then with a sword, preferably a magical, flaming vorpal one. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Walter</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Walter_J, post: 163217, member: 2938"] To follow up on Zhure's answer(s). On contemporary Earth, melee weapons and hand-to-hand combat are still very popular. Most military people are issued a knife and trained how to use it. Studies in hand-to-hand are very popular, even outside the military, be it karate, kung-fu, judo, etc... Historically, once someone gets a hold of you (i.e. melee combat) a firearm isn't of much use. The Highland Charge was a serious pain to the British army. The solution? They turned their muskets into spears via bayonet (they may have been rifled at the time, can't recall). The d20 system supports this with AoO for using a missle weapon in melee. What better way to follow up on that AoO then with a sword, preferably a magical, flaming vorpal one. :D Walter [/QUOTE]

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