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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sjappo" data-source="post: 8246450" data-attributes="member: 6874006">For my own home-brew campaign situated in a fantasy wild west I looked at trends in the weapons table.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">finesse weapons top out at 1d8 with the rapier.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">light finesse weapons top out at 1d6 with the short sword and scimitar</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">versatile weapons top out at 1d10 with various weapons, but are neither light nor finesse</li> </ul>So any non light weapon that tops at 1d8/2d4 can be given finesse without impact. Finesse and light if it is 1d6.I think a non light 1d10 finesse versatile or 2-handed weapon would be fine. It gives the option of GWF but at the exclusion of a shield or 2nd hand weapon. Which is an interesting trade-off. Even heavy would be fine, opening up GWM. GWM and sneak attack bite each other as the greater base damage from a sneak attack makes the GWM attack with its -5 less attractive.The only beef I have with this is that it takes some toys from STR fighters and gives them to DEX fighters as well.  DEX has enough toys as it is.I found way around this by making most weapons finesse and giving them different stats depending on how you use it, bumping the damage for STR users. My boar spear is finesse; 2-handed DEX 1d8, 1-handed STR 1d8 and 2-handed STR 1d10 reach. A tomahawk would be 1-handed, thrown and light; DEX 1d4, STR 1d6.</blockquote>