race, kingdom, area or god specific weapons

[Sir ThornCrest]

To charge a dwarf a feat to use a Dwarven axe has never made since to me. So in our campaigns Dwarves dont have to. If the 1/2 Orc is raised with Orcs then he will have the weapons they commonly use, if raised by humans he will have the weapons known there.

Elves and their bows, not charged an exotic proficiency slot to races using their own weapons? Never made since to me..exotic meaning foreign and rare-if you see and work with every day it aint exotic.

Some plains areas nomadic people live on the horse, so in our campaigns we will usually not charge them the exotic weapon feat for a horsebow.

Kingdoms or areas that use the scimatar as an every day sword, we dont charge them a feat to use it.

A samurai wouldnt have to pay exotic for kantana etc. because to him the kantana is his everyday sword not an exotic weapon.

Maybe in some lands full of big humans "The Dreaded Ice Barbarians" where the males are about 7' and 400lbs. They would use the bastard sword one handed and they wouldnt be charged the exotic weapon prof.

Thorncrest

 

[Lord Pendragon]

I go by a different philosophy. i.e. the reason a weapon is named after a specific race is because that race invented it, and many members of that race spend a feat to learn how to use it. But it's not free.

So you'll see a lot of half-orcs that spent a feat on EWP: Orc Double-Axe, and a lot of dwarves who spent a feat on MWP: Dwarven Waraxe (or got it by taking levels in fighter, their favored class after all.) I don't allow the (IMO silly) Elven Thinblade and Smallblade, but if I did it'd be the same.

I can understand your reasons for ruling as you do, though. I saw a house rule on these boards that I liked, which made the Bastard Sword a human racial weapon. So long as all the races have the same exotic weapon benefits, I wouldn't mind the "races get their own weapons for free" ruling. It'd just mean every PC got one EWP for free.

 

[Corlon]

yeah, instead of giving people free weapons, just make everyone take exotic weapon proficiency, or give everyone an extra.