Put up your dukes, Ryan and Charles are getting scrappy.

In honour of Boxing Day, Charles wanted to know more about how melee combat works in Essence20. Ryan breaks down the rules, melee’s purpose in the system, some good options for melee builds, and the origin of the melee weapon rules.

As Indiana Jones demonstrated, if you had a gun, why would you use a sword? What is the importance of melee in a game with guns and lasers?

The Essence 20 system has a great number of Melee options across all of the worlds that it covers. What does Melee give us? 

Melee In Essence20

Why is Melee important to have?

Good examples of Melee focused characters:

Melee Roles

Melee weapons

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