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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3685414" data-attributes="member: 1656">The description of the bastard sword doesn't really cater for inappropriate size.  Consequently, there are a couple of ways you could read it.The bastard sword is a one-handed weapon; however, it is too large to wield in one hand without special training.  It can be wielded two-handed as a martial weapon.Assuming a Medium weapon:By my reading, a human without the EWP feat can't wield the sword in one hand, with or without a -4 penalty.  It is too large.For an ogre, it is considered a light weapon.  But there isn't an explicit rule in place to convert "too large to wield in one hand", or even "wield two-handed".  (There's a rule for converting "two-handed weapon", but that isn't what the bastard sword text says.)So one could read it that the bastard sword is a light weapon for the ogre, but too large to wield in one hand.I personally make the assumption that it's a light weapon for the ogre, and takes the disadvantages thereof (-4 to Disarm and Sunder checks, for example), but does not gain the advantages (lowered TWF penalties, useable in a grapple, etc) unless he has the EWP feat.So he can use it one-handed; if he uses it two-handed, he does not add 1.5x Str bonus because it's a light weapon; but if he uses it as an off-hand weapon, his TWF penalties are as if his off-hand weapon were not light.He won't take a -4 non-proficiency penalty (assuming he has All Martial Weapons), but he will take a -2 inappropriate size penalty.That's my own ruling, however... since there's detail missing from the weapon description, there are some blanks an individual DM will need to fill in.-Hyp.</blockquote>

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