Do you prefer the 3.5 or the 3.0 weapon size rules?

Which weapon size rules do you prefer: the 3.0 or the 3.5 rules?

  • I prefer the 3.0 version.

    Votes: 128 40.9%
  • I don't really care, both are equally good (or bad)

    Votes: 32 10.2%
  • I prefer the 3.5 version.

    Votes: 139 44.4%
  • I just want to vote in polls!

    Votes: 14 4.5%

Li Shenron said:
But it was simpler, that size already told everything about how can you wield such a weapon. Now it's slightly but unnecessary more complicated. As I said, it's not a big difference, but having to choose I prefer the earlier version.

It didn't. It told you nothing about what you needed for proficiency with that weapon - and that's where the problem started.

I do consider that a "Large Dagger" to sound more like a dagger used by a large creature, rather than a greatsword for a human and a dagger for a Colossal creature. I detest the confusion in nomenclature of the 3e system.

Cheers!
 

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MerricB said:
It didn't. It told you nothing about what you needed for proficiency with that weapon - and that's where the problem started.

I meant that size told you everything about how your character could wield such a weapon, with regards to whether you wielded it one or two hands.

Class proficiencies told you whether you didn't have the -4 penalty, and to qualify for some feats.
 

Ranger REG said:
Not just for advanced gaming, but what if you need to stat giant NPCs as BBEG or big bosses? The game is very human-centric. Everything is benchmarked for human. A human wizard can wield a dagger but a giant wizard will have to spend their own feat to wield an equivalent of a dagger (human greatsword?).

No, he won't. He's a giant. He has all simple and martial weapon proficiencies.
 

ThirdWizard said:
The whole Sting thing works just as well under 3.5 as 3.0...
Sting was kept around as a good knife by a troll (not an akward funky letter opener) and used as a fantastic sword by a hobbit. But was forged as a short sword for a man. Thats 3.0 sizing in a nutshell.
 

Kahuna Burger said:
Sting was kept around as a good knife by a troll (not an akward funky letter opener) and used as a fantastic sword by a hobbit. But was forged as a short sword for a man. Thats 3.0 sizing in a nutshell.

You only suffer a -2 penalty for using an innapropriately sized weapon. You can still actually use like in 3.0.

A halfling can pick up an elven short sword and use it as a "long sword".
 

Storm Raven said:
No, he won't. He's a giant. He has all simple and martial weapon proficiencies.
Wow. Didn't realize the race is martial-based to begin with, even one who abhors violence. Are all nonhuman D&D races are as one-dimensional as Klingons? :p
 


A giant druid is screwed in 3.0. Scimitar? Nope, it's too small. Club? Same problem. Maybe a spear it can weild as a dart. And a druid throwing a boulder will probably lose her powers in 3.0...
 



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