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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3485563" data-attributes="member: 13966">Yeah.  Powerful Build allows a half-giant or goliath, despite being Medium-sized, to wield a Large Greatsword two-handed at no penalty.  Or a Large Longsword one-handed at no penalty.I have no idea what the Weapon of Choice feat is or what book it's from.  Your description doesn't seem to make sense, since character cans already wield a one-handed weapon in their off-hand (they'd just take a slightly higher penalty on attack rolls for two-weapon fighting that way).Balanced is a magic weapon quality from Arms & Equipment Guide, which is a 3.0E book and thus it may need revising for 3.5E play.  I don't know if the designers of 3.5 would really want that quality to be used on a 3.5E weapon or not without revising it first. *shrug*As written though, that quality would allow a half-giant or goliath to wield two Large Greatswords, one in each hand, it seems.  Probably why that kind of combo of 3.0 + 3.5 material is broken.  :\ Bold emphasis mine in the below SRD quotes.  Half-Giants and Goliaths are able to use weapons designed for larger creatures, without penalty, as though they were one size larger, which would suggest they also treat them as light, one-handed, or two-handed as per a creature one size larger.  Otherwise it wouldn't really be a benefit, and pretty pointless to include.  Although it's a tad vague, it does imply that they can use such weapons without suffering the normal drawbacks for doing so.</blockquote>

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