Quote Originally Posted by Pepsi_Plunge View Post
Actually, you don't. Well, sometimes, maybe. But you start as a lancer and - while some are - most of the other DRG-weapons in the game are clearly not spears. It's even stating on the official job-description that you are a lance-wielding knight.

But spears ain't much shorter anyway.
Quote Originally Posted by BiffWellington View Post
Well, that's true, but medieval English archers didn't have to run around in dungeons and other tight spaces, engaging enemies at close range, constantly shifting position. And I'm telling you, that one bow was like eight feet long, well over "nearly seven feet".
Long, long ago when D&D was quite new, I and several other polearm and greatsword users from the Society for Creative Anachronisms were asked to stage a fight in a 10' dungeon corridor for a D&D con. There were no problems. There would be less problem with a bow as archers do not get involved in close quarter combat. Hopefully.