Longsword PCs

[Jefe Bergenstein]

Out of the last 2 campaigns I've run, featuring roughly 20 pc's or NPC allies, only 1 used a longsword regularly.

 

[the Jester]

About 1 in 5. The rest seem to focus on greatsword, archery, longspear, lance, shortsword (well, usually two short swords) or rapier.

 

[Sejs]

In my current game:

Druid - Club, in the few circumstances when he's not wild shaped.

Spirit Shaman - Quarterstaff.

Ranger - Paired rapier and handaxe.

Monk/Cloistered Cleric - Unarmed.

Duskblade - Bastard sword.

 

[Voadam]

My longtime group that I DM

1 longsword
2 shortsword
3 bastard sword type Warhammer variant
4 archer with a mace for melee
5 staff/natural weapons

My pbp group in a metal poor setting

1 greatclub
2 psiblade
3 None (warlock)
4 spear

My solo character
Bastard sword

 

[Jedi_Solo]

I've seen a lot of characters start out with a longsword, and then a good portion of them stop using a long sword some where along the line. Many of them stop using the longsword because something better comes along before too many feats get put into longsword or because "they want to be different".

 

[Holy Bovine]

About 20% give or take 10%. Most favour greatswords, bastard swords or rapiers.

 

[Odhanan]

A lot of characters in our campaigns do not use longswords. They use rapiers, short swords, daggers, scimitar, falchion, quarterstaff, unarmed damage, dragon pistols, dragon riffles, eldritch blasts, short and long bows, so on, so forth.

It all depends on the character's flavor, really.

 

[Laman Stahros]

My current group:

Human Knight wielding longsword and shield (the meat shield)
Human Fighter wielding bastard sword and shield (the destroyer of npcs)
Drow Hexblade wielding bastard sword and shield (the bane of DMs)
Human Rogue wielding rapier (the sneaky one)
Human Cleric wielding light mace (former PC, currently a NPC)
Elf Swashbuckler wielding elven thinblade (the new guy)
Drow Cleric (I don't remember what he uses. He doesn't usually fight.)
Kobold Ranger wielding warhammer or battleax (the archer, doesn't usually melee)
Tibbet Sorcerer wielding repeating light crossbow (she is lethal with that thing)

Only one (maybe two) longswords in the group. The human fighter used to use a greatsword, but the original player dropped out and the guy playing him now wants more AC.

 

[Corsair]

Rough estimates:

In a 4 person party, 3 are almost guaranteed to be NOT using a longsword (cleric, wizard unless elf but even then that hardly counts as "using", and rogue assuming a ranged/dex finesse rogue). So really it is only a sub-set of the warriors. And even then, it is only a sub-set of "one handed weapon users" which in turn is a subset of warriors.

So yeah, more than zero.

But 10% or less.

 

[Jdvn1]

excellent weapon choice for a favoured soul

An excellent choice for a favored soul is whatever his deity's favored weapon is.