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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 8453545" data-attributes="member: 6799660">I think it is entirely possible that the design team made the greataxe as it was specifically for savage attacking brutal crit-ing half-orc barbarians. I mean, the lance was clearly designed specifically for 2wf halfling beastmasters and quarterstaves for shield-wielding polearm masters. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />It's not so dire as sometime made out to be (ex. at first level the difference between 2d6+3 and 1d8+3 can matter), but it certainly seems that the reason to lean into* two-handed strength weapons is mostly for things in addition to what goes on on the weapon chart -- barbarian abilities which only apply with Strength, PAM, GWM, magic weapons distribution, etc. *And you are strongly incentivized to do so. A generalist build who can switch-hit with any weapon they find who picks up no weapon-type-specific feats is decidedly unfavored.</blockquote>