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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3828773" data-attributes="member: 710">"Schnitt des Drachenschwanzes", "Drachenwurf", "Schlag des Drachenschwanzes" "Schwung des Drachenschwanzes"? ( Hmm. Honestly, I have no idea how they will translate that, but I don't own any German D&D books, anyway. There is only one player in our group that owns them, and we never use them. At first, the translation took forever, and we forced to use the English ones. When the books were finally out, it was too difficult to get accustomed to the German names for game terms we already knew perfectly well from English. <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=":)" />There might be another reason why such limited abilities are "required": They enforce that people specialize in a chosen weapon. If you got Dragon's Tail Cut and it can only be used with swords, you will probably also want to pick up other sword-related feats and talents. Now, I personally did like the archetype of the non-weapon-specialized Fighter (that's what I played in the Shackled City campaign), but in most fiction, characters usually focus on a very select few weapons. So it might be a good idea to model this with encouraging weapon specialization. At the same time, this means you can specialize in a weapon and still have multiple combat options. A 3rd edition fighter that did choose weapon focus has to give up many feats that give him more or better tactical options, and as a result, they are only interesting when you only wanted a heavy hitter without further style. Now, if the whole Weapon Focus chain is removed and replaced with weapon specific improved trip/sunder/disarm feat chains, this might in some way be the best of both worlds.</blockquote>

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