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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1592894" data-attributes="member: 1656">You do when the bad guy has DR, and you're the only one reliably getting through it with two-handed swings of the greatsword <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Enh.  Game-mechanically, a longsword and a greatsword need the same amount of space - 'not grappled'.With the paladin we had in our party, we found the longsword-and-shield combination to be symptomatic of the character's personality - namely 'wussy coward'.  Hiding behind his shield because he was afraid of getting hurt.  Feh.  Some paladin <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The player didn't make one session; the remaining players unanimously decided that the character had 'seen the light'.  He discarded his shield, swapped his longsword for the +1 greatsword we took off a slain foe, and started making his 20 Str actually work for a change.And suddenly, the paladin was a fearsome smiter-of-evil, not a pansy cowerer-in-the-corner.  The same character who, two weeks before, had decided not to dive sword-first off the glacier at the fleeing white dragon (heading for cover to breathe on us from safety), electing instead to climb cautiously down a rope, now took on a bearded devil pretty much single-handedly, being knocked unconscious and cured back into the low positives twice before dealing the death blow, from prone, while on zero hit points, with his single standard-action-while-staggered-before-falling-unconscious.That's a paladin!So drop the pussy shield and use a real sword!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-Hyp.</blockquote>

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