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<blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 7266676" data-attributes="member: 6802951">Ah thank you. That's the weapon I was thinking of.It is in no way a finesse weapon.&nbsp;You might want to cool it with making huge sweeping claims about what &quot;everyone&quot; does, and what &quot;no one does&quot;. For one: you're incorrect and I suspect you know it. You might be making hyperbolic claims for the sake of humour or trying to get your point across better, but it doesn't come across well in a text format where the only way to judge what you're trying to say is what you actually say.For two, making that sort of grandiose claim of absolute truth rather hurts your position because if we know that you're not telling the truth on one thing, it makes a lot of the other things you say more suspect.&nbsp;Assigning motives or unpleasant personality traits to people when you don't understand them likewise doers not come across well in a debate.Would rephrasing it in a different way work?&quot;Sure, but because your style uses magic to integrate the sword and unarmed strikes rather than rely solely on the blade for offense, the techniques you start off using are a little different to the usual ones with a longsword. You'll do a lower dice of damage with it until your martial arts damage dice catches up to it.&quot;That should satisfy a player whose character concept is based around &quot;Longsword&quot;.It probably won't satisfy a player whose character concept is based around &quot;d10 damage&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cap'n Kobold, post: 7266676, member: 6802951"] Ah thank you. That's the weapon I was thinking of. It is in no way a finesse weapon. You might want to cool it with making huge sweeping claims about what "everyone" does, and what "no one does". For one: you're incorrect and I suspect you know it. You might be making hyperbolic claims for the sake of humour or trying to get your point across better, but it doesn't come across well in a text format where the only way to judge what you're trying to say is what you actually say. For two, making that sort of grandiose claim of absolute truth rather hurts your position because if we know that you're not telling the truth on one thing, it makes a lot of the other things you say more suspect. Assigning motives or unpleasant personality traits to people when you don't understand them likewise doers not come across well in a debate. Would rephrasing it in a different way work? "Sure, but because your style uses magic to integrate the sword and unarmed strikes rather than rely solely on the blade for offense, the techniques you start off using are a little different to the usual ones with a longsword. You'll do a lower dice of damage with it until your martial arts damage dice catches up to it." That should satisfy a player whose character concept is based around "Longsword". It probably won't satisfy a player whose character concept is based around "d10 damage" [/QUOTE]

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