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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frankthedm" data-source="post: 3028140" data-attributes="member: 1164">I allow said weapon, the great hammer, I even let it deal 2d6 which i also do for the great axe. I use the "maul" name for the 2 handed weapon, using "war sledge" for the Bastard hammer. I decided it weigh a touch more that the "large war hammer" though.Medium martial 2 hands 2d6 x3 crit. More or less this is weapon the titan wields [the 2 handed hammer that is the blunt equivalent of a Great axe. ]For some reason wotc did not put a 2 handed martial 1d12 or 2d6 x3 blunt weapon in the core rules. They have the martial 1 handed 1d8 x 3 war hammer and even the simple 1 handed 1d8x2 crit mace, but the only 2 handed blunt weapon is the cripplingly inefficient martial great club[1d10 x2 crit]. The only way to get a decent two handed hammer is to wield the next larger size’s war hammer, but wotc saddled that with a -2 to hit. That makes it very inefficient to wield since that – 2 to hit is the penalty one can take with power attack for +4 to damage with a 2 handed weapon.The titan gets an ability to avoid the -2 to hit for wielding the war hammer one size too big. He wields it with both hands.Non core ways for a jumbo hammer;A forgotten realms accessory had an exotic hammer called the maul that was the bastard sword / dwarven war axe of hammers.The “Goliath” hammer is a 2 handed exotic 1d12 x4 crit [+2 bonus on sunder attempts]. [those are the medium version’s stats.]MM4 has introduced The greathorn hammer an exotic Medium 2-hand 2d6 x4 crit weapon [erroneously listed with a 19-20 crit in addition to the x4, I say erroneous because the weapon in the monster listing does not have the extended crit. Wotc promised us NO extended and multiplied crit weapons IIRC.]</blockquote>

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