FilBot3

Is there any reason they still haven't showed back up? I keep wanting to link people to Basic Magic, Basic Creatures, Basic Gamemaster, Classic Fantasy, but they're nowhere to be found as far as I can tell from rudimentary web searches.

What I got from this is that if you're on the same DEX rank for Initiative, and you have a long weapon, you technically go first. Then the subsequent shorter weapons go. In my mind, I would be using that Length rating as denoting when a person "closes the gap" and engages an enemy, the Long length weapon would be able to act first, then Medium or Short length weapons, until fully engaged and distance is closed to 0.

I'm still drawing blanks reading through this. Grapple and Brawl are range: touch and length: close. That means that I have to close the distance and touch the opponent. However, a dagger that is also a one handed attack is only range: short with no listed length, which I would assume is close because you have to "get in close" to use it. Lamenting, I wish that the Length was called out in these stats in the book as the character sheet seems to call for it.