If you find it untrustworthy to let a bowman shoot at a closeup axeswinging orc, I'd say he'd get an opportunity attack. Otherwise, if there isn't any such clarification, I'd love to hear what other peoples take on the no-point-blank-shots idea? But if there is clarification somewhere that I haven't been able to find, and someone can point me in the right direction, that would be grand! Since I haven't been able to find anything clarifying it or asking for clarification, it may be that it isn't something that needs clarification for anybody else. This is probably because it's Intended that you can always make a point blank shot if you want to, and I may be reading too much into something somewhere (probably the improvised weapons section). Reading the Crossbow expert: "Being within 5 feet of a hostile creature doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged attack rolls." So if you can make a ranged attack against a creature in close combat, then it's no longer at disadvantage, but I still haven't found anything saying whether you can or not. But it could also be that the Intention was that you weren't able to take a point blank shot, and so attacking a creature so close to you would require a melee weapon attack. it also deals 1d4 damage" Now this is potentially just intended for someone who would be at disadvantage, but who would prefer to do a lower amount of damage rather than lower their chances of hitting. Reading about Improvised Weapons: "If a character uses a ranged weapon to make a melee attack. Reading about Ranged Attacks in Close Combat: "when you make a ranged attack with a weapon, a spell, or some other means, you have disadvantage on the attack roll if you are within 5 feet of a hostile creature." Obviously this is intended to affect all ranged attacks, but doesn't really make any reference to whether you can actually make a ranged attack on a creature that you are in close combat with. Reading about Ranged Attacks: "When you make a ranged attack you fire a bow to strike a foe at a distance." Is 5 feet away at a distance? Or is 5 feet away so close that they can easily step within your reach, preventing you from firing at them? I was reading through the PHB looking at Crossbow Expert and trying to get a decent understanding of how it works. *A version of this article appears in print in the 9 June, 2022 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly.Long story short: RAW or RAI, can you actually take a point blank shot with a ranged weapon, or if you're attacking a creature within 5 feet do you have to make a melee attack?
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Will his rational advice prevail within this time frame? Or will Washington’s obstinacy persist, courting the tipping point of World War III? Kissinger cautioned that the parties needed to be brought to the negotiating table within the next two months because beyond that point tensions and upheaval will be much harder to overcome. According to the Ukrainian finance minister, the war is costing his country 70 per cent of its revenues. The writer warned that perpetuating the war would be disastrous for Ukraine which is already running up its deficit at the rate of $5 billion a month.
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Urging the need to be realistic about the war in Ukraine, the Guardian called for peace negotiations based on the situation on the ground rather than on what people think it should be. Yet, some circles in Europe seemed receptive, exposing some of the cracks in European opinion. The Ukrainian president vehemently dismissed Kissinger’s ideas. What is needed are efforts to find the means to incorporate Russia as much as possible in the European system rather than to drive it into an anti-Western alliance with China. He believes that the total defeat the US wants to inflict on Russia is not only unachievable but undesirable. It was from this perspective that Kissinger proposed ceding some portions of Ukraine to Russia in order to end the war. Indeed, the Russian state was essentially founded in Kyiv. For centuries, Ukraine had been an integral part of the Russian Empire.
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Perhaps the most important part of Kissinger’s suggestion concerned the non-acquisition of territory of another sovereign state by force as this principle applies to Ukraine.
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His purpose was to start some ripples in a diplomatically stagnant pond which has offered no hope for a political solution. But, in a video interview with Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the seasoned elderly diplomat sounded a different note. This applies in particular to the US where an unvarying chorus has been stridently insisting that Russia must be defeated regardless of the cost. The veteran statesman took the occasion of his 99th birthday to give the world a precious gift: the voice of reason, which has been silenced in the midst of the thunder and fever of war.