Meeki said:The monkey grip my friend told me about merely lets you reduce the penalty for using a weapon one size category larger with only a -2 penalty. It does not let you use a 2 hander one handed but it does let you use a large 2 handed greatsword 2 handed with a -2 penalty.
Ah. I'm not sure I feel that the way we use Monkey Grip is any more broken than that way. The way we use it allows a 6 foot(ish) sword to be used in 1 hand by a medium sized creature, the way you described it would allow the same creature to wield a... 8... or 9 foot sword in two hands. Anyway, if you would like to use this class in one of your compaigns you can simply take out the prereq of monkey grip and have adaptive polearm allow them to use the weapon 1 handed with a -2 (or no) penalty as well as it's currently description.
Edit: You also might want to make it so the Hoplite gains light armor proficiency and proficiency with all shields. Personally, I think that if someone was going to multiclass into Hoplite they should plan for all that, hence the reason I didn't have the Hoplite gain those proficiencies.
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