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<blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 4101163" data-attributes="member: 3929">Hypothetical:The PHB, instead of the current picture, <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/cw_ag/75468.jpg" target="_blank">presents this</a> as the spiked chain. Your reaction?With all these addendums and caveats, do you still think it is mechanically worth an extoic weapon feat? Few enough players I know take the chain as a weapon as-is; lowering the damage, weaknening the range, and removing the strength bonus wouldn't help sell the thing.While I don't see a mechanical need for it, you instead of completely removing the 1.5 Str bonus, you could remove it in the event the weapon is Weapon Finessed. Since they're not using their Strength to accack, they ought not get an extra bonus; but leave the option open for Str-based characters.While that would make sense, I think it's a needless complication that doesn't add anything beneficial to the weapon.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felix, post: 4101163, member: 3929"] Hypothetical: The PHB, instead of the current picture, [url=http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/cw_ag/75468.jpg]presents this[/url] as the spiked chain. Your reaction? With all these addendums and caveats, do you still think it is mechanically worth an extoic weapon feat? Few enough players I know take the chain as a weapon as-is; lowering the damage, weaknening the range, and removing the strength bonus wouldn't help sell the thing. While I don't see a mechanical need for it, you instead of completely removing the 1.5 Str bonus, you could remove it in the event the weapon is Weapon Finessed. Since they're not using their Strength to accack, they ought not get an extra bonus; but leave the option open for Str-based characters. While that would make sense, I think it's a needless complication that doesn't add anything beneficial to the weapon. [/QUOTE]

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