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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1399396" data-attributes="member: 1656">A Medium two-handed blade has 5 hardness and 10 hit points.  A Medium one-handed blade has 5 hardness and 5 hit points.I'm swinging my longsword in two hands.  Someone tries to Sunder it - they roll 11 damage, of which 6 gets past the hardness.Later, it gets dark, so someone passes me a torch.  I have to hold my longsword in one hand.  It breaks.  Because I took one hand off the hilt.-----The table of weapons, with subheadings "Light weapons", "One-Handed weapons", and "Two-Handed weapons" would have to be relabelled "Light weapons", "Weapons that can be wielded in one or two hands", and "Weapons that can only be wielded in two hands".  These same headings would also have to be applied to the table of hardnesses and hit points.The definitions of One-Handed and Two-Handed weapons would have to be rewritten to describe "Any weapon (apart from a light weapon) wielded in one hand" and "Any weapon (apart from a light weapon) wielded in two hands".  Obviously, the current descriptions wouldn't make any sense - a two-handed weapon (like a longsword being wielded in two hands, say) requires two hands to use effectively... unless you use it in one hand, in which case it can be used effectively, except it's a one-handed weapon now... unless it's too big to be used in one hand, in which case it can't be a one-handed weapon anyway...Power Attack would have to be altered, since "a two-handed weapon, or a one-handed weapon wielded in two hands" is now redundant.... see what I mean?  Basically anywhere that uses the terms would be... wrong.Except Disarm, because the new FAQ rules on Disarm would obviously already fit with the new FAQ definitions of One-Handed and Two-Handed.-Hyp.</blockquote>

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