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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dmnqwk" data-source="post: 6780262" data-attributes="member: 6804204">Players are free to design whatever weapons they like, but ultimately having a 1d10 slashing polearm and... a second 1d10 slashing polearm that looks and operates distinctively but has no further benefits because 5th edition did away with the minutia of "+2 to disarm" or "+1 because they're in plate" so it leaves a player having to do a bit more work themselves.As for the OP he wants realism in his games, which is fine. Realistic Games, however, should be treated as an oxymoron and the person asking probably should've stopped at "I don't like how 5th edition pictures look" instead of using the realism description, because the art style is easily capable of drumming up images of a realistic dagger finding it's way into a minota...oh, wait... nope, I'm lost! But, we all have our quirks. Mine is that I wish they had put daggers and the like up to 1d6, instead of 1d4, to match what they did to hit dice. But more importantly it would mean that hitting someone on the head with a flowerpot (improvised weapon) did LESS damage than a dagger. Seems a bit silly I can tear the femur off a skeleton and beat someone to death with it as effectively as I could use a blade somebody designed specifically for combat with.</blockquote>