Is there a "greathammer"?

[R-Hero]

That's funny because while we allow the "Races books", if I asked for anything from Forgotten Realms (or Eberron), I'd be run out of the house.

I'm just going to ask if I can have a great hammer made - exactly the same as a great axe but does bludgeoning.

Seems like the easiest solution.

Ah, but a Greathammer in Races of Stone gets a x4 to Crits.
Make one out of Adamantine and get ready to sunder the crap out of everything.
(It gets a bonus to sunder attempts too, but without the book in front of me I can't remember. +2 comes to mind)

I played a goliath with an adamantine Greathammer and a lot of hit points. (See Jollydocs Shackled City S.H.) .
A 3d6 crit x4+ str will make soup out of most things.
Very few creatures have bludgening DR,
And there is hardly a door or chest you can't bust into...Lots of fun

 

[Someone]

If you just scale the warhammer to be 2-handed you end with a martial 2d6 20/x3 weapon, wich is different from greatsword and greataxe. I´d allow it in my games.

 

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[taliesin15]

As a DM I would certainly allow a Greathammer, in fact, this brings to mind a similar weapon I thought of, a Great Pick, in case someone wanted to play a super bad Gnome Fighter character. I'm always up for this kind of creative tweaking IMC and I think most other DMs should think in this way.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Ah, but a Greathammer in Races of Stone gets a x4 to Crits.
Make one out of Adamantine and get ready to sunder the crap out of everything.
(It gets a bonus to sunder attempts too, but without the book in front of me I can't remember. +2 comes to mind)

Correct. It is an Exotic weapon, though; while you could take the feat that gives you proficiency with racial weapons (or treats them as martial), it's not terribly worth it. And, really, +2 on Sunder isn't really that much of a bonus. After all, PCs almost never sunder.

A 3d6 crit x4+ str will make soup out of most things.
Very few creatures have bludgening DR,
And there is hardly a door or chest you can't bust into...Lots of fun

My goliath barbarian/fighter/cleric/warpriest uses a Great Falchion, for the more frequent crits. However, he does carry the Greathammer as a religious function, and occasionally uses it for fun.

Brad

 

[frankthedm]

As a DM I would certainly allow a Greathammer, in fact, this brings to mind a similar weapon I thought of, a Great Pick, in case someone wanted to play a super bad Gnome Fighter character.

i gave out one of those picks myself. It was made from a dragon's tooth.

 

[MarkB]

i gave out one of those picks myself. It was made from a dragon's tooth.

A Great Tooth Pick?

 

[ValhallaGH]

Not quite as good as the Goliath Hammer, but if you’re DM doesn’t allow the Races of series then I suggest you try the Maul in the FRCS.

It’s a martial 2-handed weapon that deals 1d10 damage. See page 97 (off the top of my head) in the FRCS for more details.

Oddly enough, the FRCS Maul has the exact same stats (excepting cost) as the nigh-unplayable Greatclub.

 

[frankthedm]

A Great Tooth Pick?

The player who had the dragon tooth pick wrote it down as Dragon's toothpick.

The idea came from a time when i was contemplating changing Dragon's DR/Magic to DR/Dragon .

 

[Unkabear]

In the back of complete warrior there is a Maul and a War(great) Mace the Maul is a d10x3 I believe and the War Mace is a 1d12 x3 -2 ac or some such. I don't have the books on my so I can only draw from my foggy memory.