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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 3568497" data-attributes="member: 2525">No, your rogue character should be built to mesh well with his group.  If his group is light on being able to do damage, he needs to be able to compensate.  What I posted was not specific to that first fight.  As I said, it's a common rogue tactic (one of the top 3) to use a reach weapon.  The only thing that build was specific to, was doing a lot of damage with a reach weapon.The feat they are burning is a feat they SHOULD be burning, and not just for that fight.  Using a reach weapon is a common rogue tactic for ANY battle.  And I said that in my post.  The rogue has a choice - range, or melee.  And even range has to be short range.  So if it is melee, you generally choose either two weapon fighting or reach.  Reach was the choice for this build, because the needs of the party seemed to dictate the rogue needed to get scrappy in melee combat, and it's better to fight from 10' with a rogue than right next to your opponent.Exotic weapon proficiency is from the PHB.  I didn't "mine" a non-core book for a "strange" weapon.  Great spear or heavy polearm are weapons that have appeared in all editions of D&D, and are "normal" military style weapons.  A spiked chain is a heck of a lot more exotic than a friggen polearm!I think you are being silly now.  It was THE FIRST expansion book.  We are not talking about some long hidden secret suppliment published down the line as power creep pours in and another edition approaches.  We are talking about the most basic, very first additional book issued after the core books came out.  A book that almost everyone uses in their game, in the very least because it issued the "no experience point penalty for prestige classes" rule for 3.5.I think you are exagerating for effect, and it's not helpful.  A big spear or polearm isn't all that unusual.  Nor is it even optimal.  It's just a common build.  You can sub in another big reach weapon of your choice and you still should do fine.  Heck pick up a ranseur or guisarme or glaive or halbred right from the PHB if you feel the 2hp average extra damage done by the exotic weapon vs. the martial weapon is too much (I don't think it is, but you seem to think it is).  Heck even a longspear is't that far off, and it's a simple weapon!</blockquote>

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