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<blockquote data-quote="Norfleet" data-source="post: 1330889" data-attributes="member: 11581">The real problem with weapon sizing isn't the entire small dagger, large dagger nonsense. All of this can be easily rectified with some COMMON SENSE, something that 3/3.5E players seem all too willing to discard in favor of a blind rule reading.The problem is that sizing makes no sense for a specific class of weapon: Spears. Spears aren't large, small, etc. They're pointy things on sticks. The thickness of the stick involved has nothing to do with the size of the wielder, it has to do with how long the stick is: A &quot;small&quot; longspear is a nonsensical construct: The &quot;grip theory&quot; of weapon sizing makes no sense when applied to such a weapon because if you made it thinner, so that it would fit a halfling hand, it would BREAK! The granularity of the reach rules only further exacerbates the problem. A weapon either has a 0', 5' reach, 10' reach, 15', etc. There are no 6' reach weapons, or 8' reach weapon, or 2' reach weapons, or 6&quot; reach weapons. It brings us back to the problem of having cats attacking a rat. Obviously, this granularity is the inherent flaw in the system. Nobody would care terribly much if regular spears had a reach of 7', and halfling &quot;longspears&quot; also had a reach of about 7'. Since the system does NOT really scale with respect to size, trying to scale the WEAPONS with respect to size simply creates more problems than it solves. The 3.5E system isn't wrong, it's actually a step in the right direction.....but it's a bandaid being slapped on a sucking chest wound.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Norfleet, post: 1330889, member: 11581"] The real problem with weapon sizing isn't the entire small dagger, large dagger nonsense. All of this can be easily rectified with some COMMON SENSE, something that 3/3.5E players seem all too willing to discard in favor of a blind rule reading. The problem is that sizing makes no sense for a specific class of weapon: Spears. Spears aren't large, small, etc. They're pointy things on sticks. The thickness of the stick involved has nothing to do with the size of the wielder, it has to do with how long the stick is: A "small" longspear is a nonsensical construct: The "grip theory" of weapon sizing makes no sense when applied to such a weapon because if you made it thinner, so that it would fit a halfling hand, it would BREAK! The granularity of the reach rules only further exacerbates the problem. A weapon either has a 0', 5' reach, 10' reach, 15', etc. There are no 6' reach weapons, or 8' reach weapon, or 2' reach weapons, or 6" reach weapons. It brings us back to the problem of having cats attacking a rat. Obviously, this granularity is the inherent flaw in the system. Nobody would care terribly much if regular spears had a reach of 7', and halfling "longspears" also had a reach of about 7'. Since the system does NOT really scale with respect to size, trying to scale the WEAPONS with respect to size simply creates more problems than it solves. The 3.5E system isn't wrong, it's actually a step in the right direction.....but it's a bandaid being slapped on a sucking chest wound. [/QUOTE]

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