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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7046593" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>What you are fundamentally fighting against is that the rules for weapons in 5e are as simple as they've been for any edition since the BECMI era. As such, there just isn't a lot of granularity or room for differentiating weapons from each other. </p><p></p><p>There are some missing spots in the matrix you could fill up, and someone earlier in the thread did. I'll fill in another. You can put the Polynesian Or in the heavy, reach, bludgeoning 1d10 damage slot, parallel to Pike and Glaive/Halberd. </p><p></p><p>But the very fact that Glaive and Halberd are now the exact same weapon (and indeed virtually all European polearms probably fall into the same slot) suggests how far we've come from the granularity of 1e. But this simplification started in 1e when people largely ignored the weapon vs. AC modifiers that made weapons work differently defending on the tactical situation (a 1e mace might be better than a long sword against a high AC foe, but worse against a large unarmored creature).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7046593, member: 4937"] What you are fundamentally fighting against is that the rules for weapons in 5e are as simple as they've been for any edition since the BECMI era. As such, there just isn't a lot of granularity or room for differentiating weapons from each other. There are some missing spots in the matrix you could fill up, and someone earlier in the thread did. I'll fill in another. You can put the Polynesian Or in the heavy, reach, bludgeoning 1d10 damage slot, parallel to Pike and Glaive/Halberd. But the very fact that Glaive and Halberd are now the exact same weapon (and indeed virtually all European polearms probably fall into the same slot) suggests how far we've come from the granularity of 1e. But this simplification started in 1e when people largely ignored the weapon vs. AC modifiers that made weapons work differently defending on the tactical situation (a 1e mace might be better than a long sword against a high AC foe, but worse against a large unarmored creature). [/QUOTE]
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