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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7539507" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I was responding to a quote that said &quot;It's hard to wield a Greatsword if you're not strong enough to lift it.&quot;&nbsp; There was nothing about being able to swing it effectively.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />But I agree. It takes a fair amount of strength to wield a sword effectively.&nbsp; I would think the same could be said about just about any melee weapon bigger than a knife.&nbsp; Which would be reflected by a negative to hit and damage.&nbsp; Unless you're wielding the mystical rapier because heaven forbid you not be able to play a high dex melee character.Where that relates to the thread topic is that there are few effective ranged weapon options for strength based characters while dex based characters are only restricted from using the highest damaging weapons available.&nbsp; Depending on the campaign that can be a pretty limiting factor.&nbsp; So do you limit the effectiveness of longbows to low strength characters or just give strength based characters better options?&nbsp; Or do you just ignore it and it sucks to be a strength based PC when the range only encounter happens?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 7539507, member: 6801845"] I was responding to a quote that said "It's hard to wield a Greatsword if you're not strong enough to lift it." There was nothing about being able to swing it effectively. :p But I agree. It takes a fair amount of strength to wield a sword effectively. I would think the same could be said about just about any melee weapon bigger than a knife. Which would be reflected by a negative to hit and damage. Unless you're wielding the mystical rapier because heaven forbid you not be able to play a high dex melee character. Where that relates to the thread topic is that there are few effective ranged weapon options for strength based characters while dex based characters are only restricted from using the highest damaging weapons available. Depending on the campaign that can be a pretty limiting factor. So do you limit the effectiveness of longbows to low strength characters or just give strength based characters better options? Or do you just ignore it and it sucks to be a strength based PC when the range only encounter happens? [/QUOTE]

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