Spear vs Knights... am I missing something?

[Rupert]

Originally Posted by Kromm

It's telling that when I ran the very first DFRPG adventures at GenCon using the 15 pre-gens in the box, lightly customized, that the delvers who did the best were Argua (oh, my), Grükuk, and Sir Yvor. So many of the low-ST, high-DX types just got . . . webbed, grabbed, and eaten.

As I recall, the major complaints from people running the DFRPG's included dungeon were along the lines that the early encounter with the giant spiders was way too difficult, and it usually turned out that they expected the PCs to be able to 'kite' with bows and finesse attacks and thought it unfair that the spiders would get into close combat really quickly and maul the 'light' combatants.

'Old school' players from pre-D&D3 days would've been better prepared...

Me I got my early experience in fantasy games in Runequest, and if you weren't in mail or better, and didn't have a decent weapon and a damage bonus, you had no business in melee (and arguably in combat at all).