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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 2349534" data-attributes="member: 7635">1.) Creating new weapons for small races (and a few exist: gnome hook-hammers, halfling skiprocks) would go outside the bounds of what the PH should do. Soon, there would be specfic weapon lists for elves, dwarves, orcs, mindflayers, and anything else.2.) For the most point, most weapons are archtypical. A dagger, axe, sword, mace, and bow all would look the same for a halfling because they are built functional (crush, slash, poke). 3.) A thought: small races fight small foes. Halflings and gnomes usually fight kobolds and goblins and avoid orcs and bugbears, leaving them to the bigfolk. A halfling using a halfling spear on a kobold is analagous to a human using a normal spear on an orc. 4.) Oddly, Armor is armor, cept for size and weight.  :\ 5.) I was always wholey annoyed my halfling wizard could NOT use a staff. Oh sure, he could take a club (the next size down) and call it a staff, but it wasn't the same. He could not double weapon the club (indeed, the only weapon that could be doubled for a small race was the GHH). and call it a staff or a broomhandle, it was still a CLUB, not a wizard's staff. 6.) The old equvilant weapons screwed up WP. A human rogue could not wield a longsword, but a halfling could wield a human's shortsword (which was analagous to a human LS). A halfling fighter could never use his WP in greatsword, greataxe, or halbred. I believe (and correct me if your wrong) buy a LITERAL reading of the rules, a halfling with a 13 str could wield a bastard sword one handed with the EWP, but never could wield a longsword without 2 Hands. A halfling also had very specific monk weapons he could use (which were a way of getting around the size-rule anyway). All in all, short of gutting the whole weapon system, its the best comprimise: Use whatever you like/proficient in, just use it one dice smaller.</blockquote>

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