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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 2686203" data-attributes="member: 12332">How many pre-statted NPCs have you found that carry really good back-up weapons?  If you can single out the half-naked guy who looks angry and carries a greatsword early on, and nerf/destroy his weapon from safely behind your own lines ... he's pretty well yoinked.  If he doesn't have another weapon on-hand that'll do for double-hand power attack, a good part of his damage output goes out the window.  Sure a barbarian with a dagger still deals a great deal of damage, but it's sort of like the mechanical equivalent of pantsing him.If you can blow up a fighter's only equipped longsword, and he's a longsword specialized fighter with improved critical and a +1 Flaming Frost Longsword ....  He's not a happy man.  If you suppress his longsword, you're punking something like 7pts-per-strike ... if you blow it up entirely, you've rendered useless 2 feats and mucked up his stride.  After the combat a PC might have a spare sword, but I know I've never had enough encumbrance left over to carry a golf bag filled with +1 Longswords for all the times a Warlock has blown my favorite weapon up on round 3 of a combat from the other side of the room.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />--fje</blockquote>

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