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<blockquote data-quote="Coroc" data-source="post: 7262524" data-attributes="member: 6895991">[MENTION=6799371]hejtmane[/MENTION] I know that this is handled in that way since 1e. BUT back then a longsword was not versatile, and therefore much easyer to identify as a missnamed rapier / arming sword.A Dao would be suitable, i agree on that one with you.&nbsp; I even do not care so much wether something does 1d8 or 1d6 it will not break anything ever.What i do criticize in a very light way,&nbsp; is that&nbsp; i doubt OP choses the longsword because for elves that is a thing, because - if that is a reason - then, for Monk it is realy not a thing ever is a reason as well. That leaves me with the unproven suspicion he does it only for the .5 dpr Advantage, which i would not care so much about than for aesthetic.Even if you create a fictive non-eastern style but western-style Monk then a Monk surely will not use the same weapon as a Knight, but rather humble things like a quarterstaff or reshaped peasant weapons. Hell, even a naginata, glaive or a flail would suffice. (I use 2 handed flails in my current game which do 2d4 and allow for reach and polearm master).It is not preparing for the Boss raid in WoW but pen and paper in the end, with every freedom, ok also the freedom to do things differently, but lets say on my table someone wants to play the monk and wants to have a swordkind weapon doing 1d8 as a Monk weapon i would instantly houserule this somehow e.g. dao, ninjato, whatever fits the campaign mood, maybe a langes messer that sounds right to me for western-style Monk.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Coroc, post: 7262524, member: 6895991"] [MENTION=6799371]hejtmane[/MENTION] I know that this is handled in that way since 1e. BUT back then a longsword was not versatile, and therefore much easyer to identify as a missnamed rapier / arming sword. A Dao would be suitable, i agree on that one with you. I even do not care so much wether something does 1d8 or 1d6 it will not break anything ever. What i do criticize in a very light way, is that i doubt OP choses the longsword because for elves that is a thing, because - if that is a reason - then, for Monk it is realy not a thing ever is a reason as well. That leaves me with the unproven suspicion he does it only for the .5 dpr Advantage, which i would not care so much about than for aesthetic. Even if you create a fictive non-eastern style but western-style Monk then a Monk surely will not use the same weapon as a Knight, but rather humble things like a quarterstaff or reshaped peasant weapons. Hell, even a naginata, glaive or a flail would suffice. (I use 2 handed flails in my current game which do 2d4 and allow for reach and polearm master). It is not preparing for the Boss raid in WoW but pen and paper in the end, with every freedom, ok also the freedom to do things differently, but lets say on my table someone wants to play the monk and wants to have a swordkind weapon doing 1d8 as a Monk weapon i would instantly houserule this somehow e.g. dao, ninjato, whatever fits the campaign mood, maybe a langes messer that sounds right to me for western-style Monk. [/QUOTE]

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