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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 1136776" data-attributes="member: 7177">You might be misunderstanding something here.You don't use a dagger as your primary weapon - unless your character has enough other talents that don't rely on your melee abilities and yet make him useful in the campaign, or unless the main society of your setting has some really strict attitudes about bearing weapons, and the power to enforce it.In most cases, you use a dagger as your secondary weapon. Many, if not most cities will frown upon people walking along their streets with long swords or great axes. This goes even more if you have to attend a social event among the high society - trying to get in with your favorite orc-slaying weaponry will only result in a summons for lots of guards with a bad attitude. Or maybe you want to go to a bad neighborhood. You could go there with a 5' instrument of cutting death, but the entire neighborhood would notice you - and the bad guy who you have been looking for will be warned and try to get away.In all these instances, the dagger is your friend. You can take it with you anywhere, and unless someone makes a really good Spot check or does a full-body search, nobody is going to notice it. So carrying a dagger might not make much sense from a purely monster-hacking point of view, but it makes perfect sense from a role-playing perspective.Your dagger - never leave home without it.</blockquote>