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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dylan Wight" data-source="post: 7442022" data-attributes="member: 6939893">I've long been a little disappointed with how restricted the 5E weapon list is. It's fine for most scenarios, but what about when you just want to swing a good ol' wood axe into an orc's face? For that matter, why isn't there an actual hatchet or tomahawk equivalent/ The 1d6 Handaxe feels more like a short-handled wood axe than a hatchet. Whether this is what the devs intended, I have no idea. So toying around with the basic premise of equipment a commoner would most likely have access to, I've come up with a couple of developments of the basic list -- specifically Hatchet and Wood Axe because the given Handaxe is sort of a sloppy design in my mind. A Hatchet would be functionally identical to the Handaxe, though it would be a 1d4 die coupled with the Light trait so you can offhand it if you wanted to. A Wood Axe would simply be a long-handled Handaxe, trading in the Thrown trait for Versatile allowing it to be used as a two-handed 1d8 weapon. Another idea I thought interesting was the historical Cane Knife or Machete, similar to the Sickle but also possessing the Finesse trait in addition to Light. These might seem a little obvious, and that's the point. While the Player's Handbook gives a great indication of what type of weapon has what traits, the list itself isn't anywhere close to being exhaustive. After all, we also lack a 1d8 Slashing Finesse weapon while we have two 1d8 Slashing Versatile weapons in the Longsword and Battleaxe. Such a weapon might be a Cutlass or Saber, which would logically follow on from the Scimitar which itself is more a representation of the genre of lightweight swords made for cutting rather than thrusts. Are there any other weapon types which would be reasonable to expand the PHB list with? I'm somewhat partial to also including a Sledgehammer because I can imagine a number of situations where that would be hilarious with an appropriate character.</blockquote>

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