(Races & Classes) Racial Weaponry

[the Jester]

There are a couple of different pics of selections of weapons in the 'preview book'. But they read, like, "human weapons" or "tiefling weapons".

Now, I don't know if a designer can speak to this at all, but I wonder if the "tiefling dagger" and the "human dagger" will have the same stats or not. Looking at the pictures, it seems as though humans and tieflings might well have different weapon selections (speaking racially, anyhow).

What d'you suppose it means, that they have different weapons pics? Will this be reflected in the racial proficiencies, maybe? Are there any mechanics in place to reflect this, or is it mostly just flavor?

Opinions/thoughts/remarks?

 

[Gloombunny]

Different cultures use different weapons. I don't see why that would be any less true in D&D than it is in real life.

That doesn't mean the differences need to be reflected mechanically. There's no reason to give a poniard and a dirk different stats or anything like that; just treat them both as daggers.

 

[Dormammu]

It's just flavor.

 

[Intrope]

Different cultures use different weapons. I don't see why that would be any less true in D&D than it is in real life.

That doesn't mean the differences need to be reflected mechanically. There's no reason to give a poniard and a dirk different stats or anything like that; just treat them both as daggers.

Especially since they explicitly mentioned Dragonborn wielding Bastard Swords (Katanas) in R&C.

IMO, the differences in weapons should mostly be reflected in the special abilities you can get to use with them.

 

[infax]

I like Intrope's suggestion.

I believe it is mostly flavor to show art and craftmanship from different races. However, it would be interesting to imply different styles and techniques for different races and the style of weapon used could help differentiate that. As long as there was no mechanic preventing different races from learning the different techniques.

 

[The Ubbergeek]

I'm not so opposed to racial weapons..

I means, we, humans, made weapons along our biology and morphology.

If a race was fudnamentaly quite different, like the three-kreens, wouldn't it possibily made distinct weapons that may account for such differences and use it at their advantage maybe?

 

[Plane Sailing]

I think that the principle is just to show that different races typical weapons look different (but a tiefling longsword is otherwise the same as a dwarvish longsword or human longsword).

There are some hints that some weapons are particular to certain cultures (dragonborn with katana and punch dagger), but nothing really specific.

 

[Bacris]

I think it would be interesting, although depending on the implementation, possibly annoying, to have special tactics that certain races can do with certain weapons, if the weapon was crafted by that race. For example, a dwarf wielding a dwarven-crafted hammer might be able to do things with it that he couldn't do with a human-crafted hammer, but he could still wield either hammer in combat.

Now, how to implement it? No idea... but I think that'd be cool

 

[Remathilis]

I think that the principle is just to show that different races typical weapons look different (but a tiefling longsword is otherwise the same as a dwarvish longsword or human longsword).

There are some hints that some weapons are particular to certain cultures (dragonborn with katana and punch dagger), but nothing really specific.

Which, in itself, is no different than dwarves favoring axes and hammers, elves favoring long blades and straight bows, and halfling favoring slings. They just extended the idea to the new races...

 

[Commonblade]

Wasn't there a mention of "hellforged" items in the Teifling section? maybe the metal they use is diffrent and bestows something.