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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 708256" data-attributes="member: 5100">Nope.&nbsp; I'm fully in the &quot;WotC is smoking crack on this one.&quot; Camp.Dwarves deserve familiarity with the Waraxe as much as humans deserve it in the bastard sword.&nbsp; Likewise, half-orcs deserve familiarity with the double axe as much as humans do with the double sword.&nbsp; Feel free to substitute whatever &quot;racial&quot; weapon names you want to in the above and compare with the bastard sword or the double sword for humans.Unless there is a parallel human weapon familiarity or an extremely special case (like the thri-kreen, although I don't use them), I'm 100% opposed to this.&nbsp; It doesn't make game-balance/game-play sense and it doesn't make &quot;cultural&quot; sense.&nbsp; As things stand right now, none of the PH races have any &quot;special&quot; weapons that would make sense for familiarity.&nbsp; Likewise, it doesn't sound like humans are getting it.Even if humans get it, too, I'm still not enamoured by the idea.&nbsp; I'll probably rule-0 it out of hand.&nbsp; It's a real shame that I should have to do that, though.About the best we can hope for is that WotC decides to cut their losses and drop the weapon familiarity before things go to the printer.&nbsp; Sure, it'll make 'em look bad for giving inaccurate previews, but that's a whole lot better than how bad they'll look by including such painfully lame new rules.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 708256, member: 5100"] Nope. I'm fully in the "WotC is smoking crack on this one." Camp. Dwarves deserve familiarity with the Waraxe as much as humans deserve it in the bastard sword. Likewise, half-orcs deserve familiarity with the double axe as much as humans do with the double sword. Feel free to substitute whatever "racial" weapon names you want to in the above and compare with the bastard sword or the double sword for humans. Unless there is a parallel human weapon familiarity or an extremely special case (like the thri-kreen, although I don't use them), I'm 100% opposed to this. It doesn't make game-balance/game-play sense and it doesn't make "cultural" sense. As things stand right now, none of the PH races have any "special" weapons that would make sense for familiarity. Likewise, it doesn't sound like humans are getting it. Even if humans get it, too, I'm still not enamoured by the idea. I'll probably rule-0 it out of hand. It's a real shame that I should have to do that, though. About the best we can hope for is that WotC decides to cut their losses and drop the weapon familiarity before things go to the printer. Sure, it'll make 'em look bad for giving inaccurate previews, but that's a whole lot better than how bad they'll look by including such painfully lame new rules. [/QUOTE]

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