2h weapon damage bonus?

[Gloombunny]

Superior weapons are supposed to be better than martial weapons.
I don't see anyone complaining that martial weapons are better than simple weapons .. I mean it's a different class of weaponry!

Because feats are plentiful enough, and most feats weak enough, that a character using a bastard sword is just plain better than a character using any other one-handed weapon. It's not that bastard swords are better, but rather, they're too good for the cost it takes to use one.

My biggest mental block on all this is that they have the same damage and yet the greatsword is larger.

Size isn't everything, y'know.