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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaleon Moonshae" data-source="post: 1666947" data-attributes="member: 12147">I'll take these one at a time:1) yeah, i know it's the standard rule now, I thought I put quotes around it, was trying to be sarcastic.2) It is true that in some ways it is easier, but now I have to add what size my weapon is to *every* weapon that isn't "standard" whereas before I knew, and it was *very* intuitive to me, that you just stepped down one step so shortsword was a longsword for a halfling. If I wanted a specific small weapon for a halfling (such as a rapier) then, and only then, did I worry about size and I would usually make a specific weapon for him and say that *that* unique weapon was sized differently. In effect, however, it just did one die smaller than a regular rapier and had the same crit range. It came natural to me.3) I say the rules because for beginning gms, and I have seen this, this is just another step for them to remember. You and I are old hands, I am sure, but not eveyrone is. I hate to blame stuff on the gm when it is just inexperience, and even inexperiece that didn't even have to be a problem if not for some clunky rule set.4) No, you are right here, there are no tables for differing siezed weapons. However, a lot of gms I know roll random treasure for piles you find in dungeons and to make that fair, they need to at least come up with a random way of determining what size weapons are. A gd can, you are right, just arbitrarily decide weapon size, but then he can also arbitrairily decide treasure (and yet there are random tables).5) Yes, but let's be honest here, the differences in prior versions of dnd were often pretty obvious, at least to hear my friends speak (i started in ad&d 2nd ed so I don't know, I played other games before that) and the differences between 3.0 and 3.5 are sometimes *deceptively* sublte. We are always finding new rules that we didn't catch before (such as the darkness spell brought up a while back, the swim check that Hyp helped me with, etc). I say those make learning 3.5 harder than before. Is it possible? Yes it is, I will admit I don't put enough effort into it because my DM likes 3.0 a lot and I like OGL a lot (for me the new 3.5 stuff is almost completely pointless for my uses).6) Yeah, Hyp had it right. I understand that you double reach, the question I had is what if that ogre is wielding a "huge" (under the new rules) glaive? Does he gain something for this extra length? What is it? Is it the typical doubling the double so it is 30'? or is it just 5 ' more, ie 25'? Does it matter at all, since under the new rules it looks like a large creature weilding a medium glaive still has "double" his reach since reach always doubles.</blockquote>

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