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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2341976" data-attributes="member: 2067">Because IRL, they are very different. Heck, a Bowie knife is different than an Arkansas Toothpick is different than a Chiv is different than a throwing knife. 3.0 ignored the difference to the point of (IHMO) hurting verisimilitude. Pretending that a dagger is just a miniature greatsword completely ignores the special function of having a dagger in the first place, and means that, by logical extention, having dagger proficiency would allow you to have greatsword proficiency, since they're they same thing at a different size. 3.5 re-established that each different weapon is a different thing.Why wouldn't a small creature develop a reach weapon? It doesn't take a military genious to think that putting a 10-ft. pole between you and the enemy is a good thing, nor does it take a particular size to think that...The added minute complexity is awkwardly worded, but it results in a game in which it makes sense for someone to know to use a dagger, but not a greatsword, because the two are distinct weapons, not merely different sized.</blockquote>