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[Theroc]

Personally, I wouldn't penalize you at all. I'd simply come up with tweaked fluff regarding those particular instances.

I know some people who're able to use things meant to be held/used in two hands use them in one(not quite as effectively[but these people weren't trained either]).

So, if I were a DM, I'd simply let you reskin those items or just assume your character learned to wield such items with one arm. (Shields become some sort of additional plating on one side of the body, or something...)

 

[Gelsamel]

Personally, I wouldn't penalize you at all. I'd simply come up with tweaked fluff regarding those particular instances.

I know some people who're able to use things meant to be held/used in two hands use them in one(not quite as effectively[but these people weren't trained either]).

So, if I were a DM, I'd simply let you reskin those items or just assume your character learned to wield such items with one arm. (Shields become some sort of additional plating on one side of the body, or something...)

Awesome, though for roleplaying/immersivity reasons I will probably avoid doing stuff I don't imagine an amputee would be able to do (like doing X with one hand while doing Y with another etc...).

About reskinning items... I was reading up abouts weights and lengths of blades and I figure that a wakizashi with a katana length handle in a katana saya (basically a wakizashi made to look like a katana :ninja: ) would be a longsword, does that sound about right?

The measurements I read for the katana puts it up in the bastard sword length range and the wakizashi is closer to the longsword.

 

[Rhun]

This is by no means an insult against Theroc, but take his words with a grain of salt, as he is not a DM and has never DMed a game before to the best of my knowledge. While every DM is completely different, most long term DMs understand the pitfalls of simply changing rules for a single PC. Adding "extra plate" to your character won't work as a shield...because if it did, every character would do it. A two-handed sword CANNOT be wielded one handed. A bastard sword can, but ONLY if you take the exotic weapon proficiency (assuming 4e uses rules similar to 3.5 for the bastard sword).

Certain rules ARE rules, and can't be changed without changing them for ALL of the players. And "living" games are much stricter on the rules from my understanding.

 

[Gelsamel]

Yeah, though I'm not looking to be able to use a two-hander or shield or offhand item. I'm also avoiding the weapon swing+punch skill that the swordmage gets and also the feint+punch skill that the swordmage gets (I suppose I could come up with some stupid reason like "The way she does the skill is she drops/throws her weapon then punches" but that would be stupid).

I'm looking for a fair amount of realism too, else why play an amputee? But I would really like to keep my swordmage warding and not take too harsh penalties on athletics (if any).

 

[Rhun]

I'm looking for a fair amount of realism too, else why play an amputee? But I would really like to keep my swordmage warding and not take too harsh penalties on athletics (if any).

That brings up a good question...why do you want to play an amputee? If it is for the roleplaying challenge of doing so, that's great. But there isn't any more challenge to playing one than there is any other character if there are no drawbacks. I don't know much about the swordmage (back to my lack of knowledge of 4e in general)...do they cast spells? If so, do they still use material components? If so, you won't be able to cast and keep your sword in hand at the same time.

 

[Gelsamel]

That brings up a good question...why do you want to play an amputee? If it is for the roleplaying challenge of doing so, that's great. But there isn't any more challenge to playing one than there is any other character if there are no drawbacks.

50% of it is an aesthetic/rule-of-cool thing. The other 50% is that it makes for an interesting character.

I don't know much about the swordmage (back to my lack of knowledge of 4e in general)...do they cast spells? If so, do they still use material components? If so, you won't be able to cast and keep your sword in hand at the same time.

It feels weird telling people about 4e when I don't know much about it myself... That being said 4e switches spells for "powers" which every class gets. The only corollary to spells in 3.5e are rituals which are complex 'spells' that take a long time to preform and which you cannot memorize (Must read them from a ritual book you have). Rituals do the type of thing that non-combat spells used to do, like locking doors or making a floating disk to carry stuff on and I think they take a material component. Powers (as far as I've seen) don't.

Powers are much more like JRPG spells than WRPG spells. Like if you watch Yuri from Tales of Vesperia do his "Arte" called "Ghost Wolf"? Yeah that's pretty close to a swordmage's Luring Strike power.

 

[Theroc]

This is by no means an insult against Theroc, but take his words with a grain of salt, as he is not a DM and has never DMed a game before to the best of my knowledge.

None taken, and the best I've done is moderate combat on an RP forum loosely based around D20. That site actually accomodated such things and it worked fine, hence my opinion.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Have you ever tried to climb single handed? I would impose a -10 penalty on a single handed person trying to climb to reflect the neccessary taining for the different style.

But that is just me.

 

[Gelsamel]

I'm more concerned about the Swordmage Warding bonus and whether people would be pissed off to have her in their group :X.

I don't see a reason why a rule set that allows so much in D&D should be ableist.

 

[renau1g]

Well, I s'pose I'm one of those "official" LEB judges and I play in a RL game with a dwarven cleric missing an arm, lost it in 'the forge' (or something I forget off the top of my head), but our DM doesn't mechanically penalize him for an RP thing. Now that's different from LEB. I wouldn't rule that your SM warding would be negated, as your other hand isn't occupied.

Quickly looking at the sheet, the formatting looks correct, can't verify #'s here (no CB at home), but yeah looks good. Feel free to mention the question to the judges when you send the e-mail to leb.judge@gmail.com.