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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8809315" data-attributes="member: 7030563">To be honest I have not seen a lot of the handwringing about longswords in play.The only characters I know who have proficiency and don't use them are generally Rogues.  We have plenty of dex martials and ranged characters that use longswords for two reasons.  First and most commonly Gauntlets of Ogre power are pretty common (actually uncommon but you know what I am saying) and girdles of giant strength are not unheard of.  At medium to high levels it is usually a dex-based martial that is sporting these things.  Combine this with the fact that longswords are the most common magic item, especially powerful magic items, this makes them often a good choice.Second if you roll stats straight up (i.e. roll strength, not roll something and assign it to strength) you can end up with a high enough strength score that using a longsword is more than viable, especially like noted above if it comes magic.  for example if your Elven Ranger rolled a 14 strength, using that +1 longsword you found as your melee weapon is not a bad idea.I find that many of the mechanics issues surrounding certain armor and weapons choices come from people using point buy and the idea of "dump stats".  Rolling largely eliminates these problems (and causes others)</blockquote>