Brawling
Melee and brawling are semantically related. in nasty fight topic. In some cases you can use "Melee" instead a noun "Brawling".
Melee
Melee noun - A rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people.
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Do not confuse with Bare-Fisted Monk or Boxing Battler, which are character types that only use melee but do not have the styleless "street brawling" connotation.
Source: Good Old Fisticuffs -
This makes Dodge & Escape useless unless your Game Master doesn't let you use Martial Arts for dodging non-melee attacks, and makes Brawling completely useless for anything other than role-playing a character who had no formal combat training.
Source: Dump Stat -
Multi-Mook Melee: Particularly with the various brawling challenge modes.
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