Melee

Trait Description: This trait is important in combat. Melee is the skill of fighting with weapons of all types—swords, axes, polearms, knives, clubs or even broken bottles and chair legs. Melee is the most common combat Ability in Creation, since melee weapons inflict lethal damage and most are relatively easy to make.

Specialties: Spears, Daiklaves, Knives, Polearms, In Formation, Single Combat, Fighting With Two Weapons, Improvised Weapons

Trait Effects: Someone with Melee 1 can use a sword to fight off a thug with a knife. Someone with Melee 3 can defeat an average solder in single combat. Someone with Melee 5 can defeat a skilled soldier while standing on one foot and blindfolded.

List of Melee Charms

Dramatic Rules for Melee

Fighting (Archery, Dodge, Martial Arts, Melee, Thrown)

See Combat and Attacking.