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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 3088501" data-attributes="member: 15538">A typical longsword's grip is around, oh, 3/4" to 1". If it's a flat, it might be 1 1/2" on one side. A greatsword's grip... is the same.Now, a sword designed for a ten foot tall person is more than 50% larger. So their longsword would have a hilt about 1 1/2" round to about 1 5/8". A flat might be over two inches across. It would be like wielding a rolling pin as the hilt of a sword. A small rolling pin, to be sure, but a rolling pin. It would also have about two pounds of weight just in the hilt, making it pretty good for power walking. Imagine sticking a sword blade on the end of a Maglight and trying to wield that. I am willing to some allowances. I've wielded boffers longer than my shoulder height, daggers with 3" pommels, five pound swords, and a 4 1/2 foot long rapier. However. Wielding a dagger with a hilt that resembles the wrong end of a baseball bat is going to present some serious problems. The only reason not to consider outsized weapons as automatically improvised weapons is that, first of all, some things are going to be sized similar (a quarterstaff would lack both girth and length relative to a larger wieldier to have about the same properties, the hilt of an elf's shortsword might not be that much larger than the hilt of a goblin's greatsword) and some weapons can be wielded in alternative ways (a large club or quarterstaff could be held like a sledge, a rapier wielded in two hands could be hefted and wielded point down like a greatsword).</blockquote>

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