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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Just Tom" data-source="post: 6924097" data-attributes="member: 6862198">You keep saying that a Balor's sword in 5E is pretty much exactly what a standard vorpal sword is. Except it is not, standard damage bonus for a vorpal longsword is 1D8+3+strenght bonus, on a critical hit against a foe that cannot be decapitated the damage is 7D8+3+strength bonus. A Balor's longsword does normal damage of 6D8+8 and 18D8+8 on a critical. Balor's sword: Longsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit:21 (3d8 + 8) slashing damage plus l3 (3d8) lightning damage. lf the balor scores a critical hit, it rollsdamage dice three times, instead of twice.Vorpal sword: You gain +3 to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. In addition, the weapon ignores resistance to slashing damage.When you attack a creature that has at least one head with this weapon and roll a 20 on the attack roll, you cut off one of the creatures heads. The creature dies if it can't survive without the lost head. A creature that is immune to this effect if it is immune to slashing damage, doesn't have or need a head, has legendary actions, or the DM decides that the creature is too big for its head to be cut off with this weapon. Such a creature instead takes an extra 6D8 slashing damage from the hit.So a vorpal sword does 1D8+3+strength bonus slashing damage on a normal hit, is useless against creatures immune to slashing damage, decapitates on a 20 if the criteria are met, and does an extra 6D8 points of damage on a 20 if the criteria is not met.A Balor's sword does 3D8 slashing +3D8 electrical damage + strength bonus on a normal hit, does electrical damage to creature immunes to slashing damage, and does 18D8+strength bonus on a critical hit.How again is the Balor's sword the same as a vorpal sword?</blockquote>

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