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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 4835064" data-attributes="member: 71571">Well... Mike Mearls has gone on record as saying they intended that Versatile let you use the weapon for whichever situation you want.  One handed to benefit from one-handed stuff, and then two-handed to benefit from two-handed stuff.Now, I checked my PHB and his name is on the cover.  Apparently he co-wrote the damn book.If -that- is not rules-as-intended, nothing is.But regarding Rules As Written:In the D&D4 rules templating, using something as something else permits you to benefit from feats/abilities/powers involving that something else.  For example, Wizards of The Spiral using a sword as a wand get to benefit from all wand stuff with that sword.  Using a songblade as a bard implement means you can benefit with all implementy stuff with that songblade (like getting that enhancement bonus.Using a power as a melee basic attack when permitted allows you to use it at the end of a charge.So, yes, using a one-handed weapon as a two-handed weapon allows you to treat it as a two-handed weapon.  That's what versatile does.Otherwise, it would do nothing except give you +1 damage, rather than allow you to switch between one-handed and two-handed if you're going for a flexible build.  For example:  A barbarian can use a versatile weapon and a small shield and still use his two-handed weapon powers.Besides, it's grokkable.  To say a weapon that says 'you can use this as a two-handed weapon' can't benefit from it is counter-intuitive.  It doesn't make sense, and players' instincts don't go in that direction.  It might make sense from a pure rules standpoint (maybe) but it doesn't have versimilitude.Superior weapons get to do that.  A fullblade overshadows both the greatsword (1d12 damage) and the greataxe (+1 to attack, while still getting highcrit)You spend a feat, you get a superior weapon.  That's kinda the point of it.  If the bastard-sword weren't better than a greatsword for a feat, there'd be no point taking the bastard-sword if you weren't a halfling/gnome.  And a bastard sword doesn't overshadow a greatsword with a feat... at higher tiers the greatsword with feat does more damage.  If it's a goliath+greatsword+feat, the greatsword does more damage in heroic.  Comparing a weapon that requires a feat to use with a weapon that doesn't, but without the benefit of that extra feat is NOT a reasonable comparison to make.</blockquote>

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