Re: Thought for the day

On Apr 29, 12:27=A0pm, The Wanderer <inversepara...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Antoine wrote:
> > (lifted off oook with modifications):
>
> > All missile weapons should have massive to-hit penalties at point
> > blank range. ("The hill orc is too close to shoot! You miss the hill
> > orc.")
>
> This idea crops up in many places in fantasy, and it has never made much
> sense to me.

Well, I think it is consistent with a 'use melee weapons for fighting
in melee and missile weapons for fighting at a distance' trope, which
is standard in many games.

It helps avoid the situation where people wander round with a +9/+9
bow and use it for combat at all ranges, which is displeasing to my
intuition. I think that if someone wants to do all their fighting with
a bow then they should have to maneuver to stay at range (shoot-and-
scoot, etc).

A.