New Weapon: Please test and balance out!

[Leopold]

war maul: large two handed maul (Hammer type), full metal construction (head and handle).

These hammers where made by dwarves in remote mountains, to be able to deliver massive damage to their enemies (mainly giants).

The handle starts a few inches in diameter, and progressivlely gets wider toward top to a max of about 7 inch diameter. overall length is about 3 - 3 1/2 feet. at the top rests a masive head about measuring aboout 18x10x7 (inches).

The prereq for this weapon are 18 strength and 15 dex because you must be both strong and dexterous to wield this weapon correctly.

damage critical range weight type
2d6 x3 - 25 bludgeoning

I don't have a gp cost for this item. But what do y'all think?

 

[uv23]

I wouldn't have stat requirements for it. Those are taken into consideration by the weight of the weapon. Just make it very heavy and an exotic weapon and it should take care of makingit a hard weapon to properly master.

 

[DrSkull]

I'd say it was perfectly fine. You could build this with the PHB and DMG.

Take a Warhammer 1d8 Damage Crit x3, make it into a Large Sized weapon (DMG p.162) and you get "Large Warhammer, 2d6 damage, Crit x3" pretty much exactly what you have, so you're golden.

 

[Fade]

I'd make it 1d12 to fit with the greataxe, but it's only 1/2 a point of damage, no biggie.

Or perhaps make it an exotic weapon doing 1d12 20/x4 to reflect the difficulty of using a weapon that big and the massive crushing blows it can inflict.