[quote=@MelonHead]
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Yep. If you fought someone like me with a more reserved wearing down play-style your characters would be lucky to reach five feet from my own if they disregarded range defence completely. There's a reason why projectiles rule battles. 

Hell, you'd come unstuck the moment you ran into someone slightly faster than your character with a bag of rocks. 
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Point I was making, in the arena you have the option of choosing your battles. Not an option really in story rp which I feel the point was discarded a bit, but meh, oh well.