[MENTION=6786839]Riley37[/MENTION] "For me, the distinction between "finesse" and non-finesse melee weapons shatters suspension far more than dual-wielding. Dagger, sword, spear, club, axe - with any of those, it's good to strike strongly AND good to strike accurately AND good to outpace (and anticipate) the opponent's moves and countermoves"
That is of course true, but would require a different Approach e.g. dex to hit and str for damage in most cases (except crossbow that is).
But were you never bothered by a halfling wielding a halberd? Imagine a size of a kid Person with a 6ft melee weapon. That would be liek a human using an 12-18 ft pike for (Close) melee, It simply would not work due to momentum and leverage so this is (b.s.)^2 and gets houseruled in my campaigns. I must admit that my dwarves tend to be 4ft rather than the 5ft dwarves of these days.
My houseruling tends to be Floating, e.g. one of my Players wanted to Play a dwarf barbarian with a halberd. I said to him "Ahm a dwarf and barbarian is compromise #1 for me, a barbarian wielding a halberd is #2 (Imagine Conan with a halberd that would lok awfully stupid), and a dwarf wielding a halberd is #3.
So i give you your dwarven barbarian and but he has to use a maul or greataxe. So everybody was happy, and it was a ravenloft campaign anyway so i did not have to evolve the dwarven tribes of the great plains.
That is of course true, but would require a different Approach e.g. dex to hit and str for damage in most cases (except crossbow that is).
But were you never bothered by a halfling wielding a halberd? Imagine a size of a kid Person with a 6ft melee weapon. That would be liek a human using an 12-18 ft pike for (Close) melee, It simply would not work due to momentum and leverage so this is (b.s.)^2 and gets houseruled in my campaigns. I must admit that my dwarves tend to be 4ft rather than the 5ft dwarves of these days.
My houseruling tends to be Floating, e.g. one of my Players wanted to Play a dwarf barbarian with a halberd. I said to him "Ahm a dwarf and barbarian is compromise #1 for me, a barbarian wielding a halberd is #2 (Imagine Conan with a halberd that would lok awfully stupid), and a dwarf wielding a halberd is #3.
So i give you your dwarven barbarian and but he has to use a maul or greataxe. So everybody was happy, and it was a ravenloft campaign anyway so i did not have to evolve the dwarven tribes of the great plains.