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<blockquote data-quote="FrozenChrono" data-source="post: 4500749" data-attributes="member: 70738"><p>The Urgrosh is listed as </p><p></p><p>axe, spear d12/d8</p><p></p><p>In the detail of the weapon it specifies which end does which amount of damage. It would have been nice if they'd specified which end was heavy and which end was light in the double sword entry but because of the how the Urgrosh is presented it seems most likely they intended the heavy side to be one end and the light side to be the other. </p><p></p><p>Allowing Heavy and light blades to be the same weapon would make any other weapon selection for the rogue inferior. Because so much of 4.0 is based on balance and choices I do not believe they intended to give rogues a perfect obvious choice in the double sword. </p><p></p><p>I know this doesn't match up with what the sword looks like in the picture, both blades are the same size, but most of 4.0 rules are about fun and balance and not what makes sense. </p><p></p><p>I think this weapon was designed to give more options to tempist fighters, rogues, ranged rangers, and maybe even paladins.</p><p></p><p>Looking at the double sword ruled like this it's still a reasonable feat choice for a rogue at 1d8 damage with its light blade side and +1 defence in exchange for occupying an extra hand. Combining Light and Heavy blade just breaks things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrozenChrono, post: 4500749, member: 70738"] The Urgrosh is listed as axe, spear d12/d8 In the detail of the weapon it specifies which end does which amount of damage. It would have been nice if they'd specified which end was heavy and which end was light in the double sword entry but because of the how the Urgrosh is presented it seems most likely they intended the heavy side to be one end and the light side to be the other. Allowing Heavy and light blades to be the same weapon would make any other weapon selection for the rogue inferior. Because so much of 4.0 is based on balance and choices I do not believe they intended to give rogues a perfect obvious choice in the double sword. I know this doesn't match up with what the sword looks like in the picture, both blades are the same size, but most of 4.0 rules are about fun and balance and not what makes sense. I think this weapon was designed to give more options to tempist fighters, rogues, ranged rangers, and maybe even paladins. Looking at the double sword ruled like this it's still a reasonable feat choice for a rogue at 1d8 damage with its light blade side and +1 defence in exchange for occupying an extra hand. Combining Light and Heavy blade just breaks things. [/QUOTE]
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