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<blockquote data-quote="Oni" data-source="post: 455421" data-attributes="member: 380">I have to say that I really think that is not a good idea from both a game balance point of view and from a realistic point of view.&nbsp; Game balance - allowing access to better weapons only to higher strength charcters only makes high stats that much more important, and makes it more difficult to make a fighter that isn't a str based tank.&nbsp; Realistic - 10-11 is supposedly the avg str range of human.&nbsp; Would you really say that a person of avg strength would be unable to effectively wield a long sword (arg a terrible misnomer if ever there was one) or a katana.&nbsp; Historically speaking an arming sword or a bastard sword would weigh in between 2-2.5 lbs and a katana less that that (it's actually a very light weapon).&nbsp; An interesting note historically rapiers outweighed most broadswords by about a pound because of the compound hilt (though the point of balance was much closer to the users hand).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oni, post: 455421, member: 380"] I have to say that I really think that is not a good idea from both a game balance point of view and from a realistic point of view. Game balance - allowing access to better weapons only to higher strength charcters only makes high stats that much more important, and makes it more difficult to make a fighter that isn't a str based tank. Realistic - 10-11 is supposedly the avg str range of human. Would you really say that a person of avg strength would be unable to effectively wield a long sword (arg a terrible misnomer if ever there was one) or a katana. Historically speaking an arming sword or a bastard sword would weigh in between 2-2.5 lbs and a katana less that that (it's actually a very light weapon). An interesting note historically rapiers outweighed most broadswords by about a pound because of the compound hilt (though the point of balance was much closer to the users hand). [/QUOTE]

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