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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ancalagon" data-source="post: 6842309" data-attributes="member: 23">One thing I will point out - and I'm not sure if it came out in my first "here is my real life experience" post - is that in real life, the bastard sword and long sword are *awesome* weapon.   Personally, I seemed to do best as a shield and board fighter, but that was in part because of our training.  However the few who were well trained with a long sword did extremely well.  Now when you go and use a "real" 2-handed sword, the big claymore like damage dealer... sure you can deliver massive  hits and you have great reach, but you lost a lot of speed and control.  It's not an obvious choice (in fact, unless you have the training *and* the strength stick to the long-sword!).   However, in D&D a long sword used 2 handed is *strictly worse* than a great sword used two handed.  That is why a good Versatile Style would be nice.  I thought I had it with +1 to hid and +1 to AC but now I'm not so sure.</blockquote>