Maybe it’s worthwhile spending a few points on Melee Combat.
A widow of 80 told yesterday how she fought off two burglars with a ceremonial Army sword. Jean Freke wrestled with one intruder then snatched the 3ft-long, 100-year-old weapon from the wall and pointed it at the chest of his pal.
The startled pair, both in their late teens, fled empty-handed from her home in Poole, Dorset.
[…] She told how while one raider went to ransack the house, she managed to steer the second one near a sword belonging to her late husband’s dad before grabbing it.
She added: “I placed it in the middle of his chest and shouted, ‘Get out, get out’.
“They suddenly became cowards and ran off.”
You go, girl.
What’s remarkable is that if it had been a gun, Mrs Freke would probably be charged with something right now, given the state of British law.
(via GoaF)
Melee combat! These guys were probably AC10 (modified by… dodge? It is has been a long time since I thought DM).
Heh. That’s so AD&D. These days in D&D3E it would be a Defense of 0, perhaps even -1 if they were overweight slackers and their Dex was low.
(Shakes head over incredible geekiness of entire conversation, and imagines himself saying all of the above in the Comic Book Guy’s voice. “Worst performance by Zeroth Level Thieves ever.”)