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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8266735" data-attributes="member: 87792">Again I don't get it. The &quot;standard bike&quot; gives you all the choice of Henry Ford. You can have any colour you like as long as it's black. Having feats makes the difference between weapons much more meaningful - and there's enough of a spread of feats that anything that without feats is good enough to use has feats to support it.Or sword &amp; board. Those are viable as well - and Sentinel + Sword and Board is an excellent feat and weapon combination. You might not have seen it but I certainly have and people really appreciate having shields.Between 2 handed close quarters weapons, 2 handed polearms, 1 handed weapons with shield, and bows I'm curious what you think is missing? 1 handed weapons with no shield? Two Weapon Fighting? Crossbows? Because it isn't feats making any of those poor choices for a fighter.&nbsp; For example it's not Sharpshooter that makes the longbow better than the crossbow. It's that crossbows need to reload and so can't fire fast enough for fighters. It's not Sharpshooter that makes longbows better than shortbows, it's that the damage dice is higher.If you accept that Sword &amp; Board + Sentinel is a strong combination then I don't think that there's one single weapon in 5e that feats encourage fighters not to use any more than the basic properties of that weapon already do. On the contrary if people go by the best weapons then due to there being few fighters on your average 5e battlefield the polearm would be a very niche weapon. But Polearm Master puts the halberd, the glaive, and even the staff into the top tier, meaning it's not all greatswords/mauls, longbows, and sword/axe &amp; board. It's four groups rather than three.As for why you never see bardiches in 5e the answer is simple. There are no bardiches on the weapons list - it's just halberds and glaives.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 8266735, member: 87792"] Again I don't get it. The "standard bike" gives you all the choice of Henry Ford. You can have any colour you like as long as it's black. Having feats makes the difference between weapons much more meaningful - and there's enough of a spread of feats that anything that without feats is good enough to use has feats to support it. Or sword & board. Those are viable as well - and Sentinel + Sword and Board is an excellent feat and weapon combination. You might not have seen it but I certainly have and people really appreciate having shields. Between 2 handed close quarters weapons, 2 handed polearms, 1 handed weapons with shield, and bows I'm curious what you think is missing? 1 handed weapons with no shield? Two Weapon Fighting? Crossbows? Because it isn't feats making [I]any [/I]of those poor choices for a fighter. For example it's not Sharpshooter that makes the longbow better than the crossbow. It's that crossbows need to reload and so can't fire fast enough for fighters. It's not Sharpshooter that makes longbows better than shortbows, it's that the damage dice is higher. If you accept that Sword & Board + Sentinel is a strong combination then I don't think that there's one single weapon in 5e that feats encourage fighters not to use any more than the basic properties of that weapon already do. On the contrary if people go by the best weapons then due to there being few fighters on your average 5e battlefield the polearm would be a very niche weapon. But Polearm Master puts the halberd, the glaive, and even the staff into the top tier, meaning it's not all greatswords/mauls, longbows, and sword/axe & board. It's four groups rather than three. As for why you never see bardiches in 5e the answer is simple. There are no bardiches on the weapons list - it's just halberds and glaives. [/QUOTE]

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