Excerpt: Weapons (MERGE)

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Concept. They might not necessarily want the Nature-themed abilities.

If the Ranger is really that "nature-themed". But I definitely think two-weapon fighting also fits to the Rogue. I am afraid he will lack powers for two-weapon fighting, but I might be wrong.

But I don't think it fits for Fighters (at least not under the Defender role concept) or Paladins (I suppose we don't need to talk about casters...)...

 

[Imp]

Well it is worth noting that throughout history I don't believe there has ever been a fighting style in the real world that used two equal sized long blades. One might reasonably assume that there is a very good reason for this.

It's not much good in formation and carrying around two long blades for duels/street fights is more of a pain than it's worth? In any case a) I've sure I've seen two-sword Chinese broadsword demos and b) of all the things to get simulationist about in this game surely realistic weapon styles are among the least productive concerns.

 

[Baumi]

I'm VERY happy about the fact that they dropped the stupid size modifiers! 8D

I often played halflings and I could never find any good Weapons since there are very few small sized enemies and their weapons sucked most of the time ... and the treasure tables also didn't work exactly in your favor.

The only disadvantage that I see now that it is hard to use big Weapons that are "special" like Polearms or Spiked Chains (that would be no loss )... but I think there will be substitute for this thanks to the "small" Property.

 

[HeinorNY]

Actually, I believe Miyamoto Musashi developed a very effective two-sword fighting style back in the 1600s. I'm sure that wasn't the only instance of two-sword fighting in history.

I believe he used a katana and a wakizashi, and not a katana in each hand.

 

[FadedC]

Actually, I believe Miyamoto Musashi developed a very effective two-sword fighting style back in the 1600s. I'm sure that wasn't the only instance of two-sword fighting in history.

I believe the fighting style you mention involves the use of a katana and wakazashi....or in very broad english terms a long sword and a short sword. Note that even legendary samurai didn't try to fight with 2 long swords at once.

Keep in mind I didn't say there were no historical fighting styles using 2 swords....I said two equal sized long swords.

 

[Rechan]

Concept. They might not necessarily want the Nature-themed abilities.

Have we seen anything that SAYS rangers = nature themed?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Have we seen anything that SAYS rangers = nature themed?

Nature as class skill. That's all we have so far.

 

[bjorn2bwild]

Nature as class skill. That's all we have so far.

well, to be a little more precise... nature as a choice for a trained skill.

The leaked picture from GAMA gives the ranger a choice between nature and edit streetwise dungeoneering

 

[ProfessorCirno]

Actually, I believe Miyamoto Musashi developed a very effective two-sword fighting style back in the 1600s. I'm sure that wasn't the only instance of two-sword fighting in history.

And he learned it - it being specifically to go with long blade / short blade - by watching Europeans, who had been doing that for quite some time

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Hopefully we won't see the broken cheese of Monkey Grip + Two Weapon Fighting (+ that feat which reduces 2wf penalties for same sized weapons) = Dual Wielding Greatswords, that we got in 3.5e.