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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9883206" data-attributes="member: 4937">Yes.  I know I should rewrite them but oh the pain of that job.  I do miss segments and spell casting time though in later editions.Yes, it is, though I've been balancing most things around the idea if that if they aren't better than a weapon specialized fighter then they aren't broken.  Weapon specialization is I'm afraid like critical hits, something players will demand even if it is bad for the game.  I couldn't take them out of 3e either; players just like the mechanics.I have given thought to rewrite weapon specialization to come in incrementally like BECMI weapon mastery or the Kensai from OA.  The bonus to hit is not nearly the problem that the bonus to damage is.  The reason I could leave Cav's weapon of choice in place and in some ways make it even more powerful and flexible is I didn't touch how much damage it did.  The one thing I will disagree with you on in this is I never played back in the day that Specialization was only for single classed fighters.  The original UA article didn't specify that.  Only a Dragon magazine article later corrected that.  But even had I known about that at the time, I would have rejected it as yet more unnecessary homocentric rules in a game that already kicked down non-humans pretty hard.  As long as you have weapon specialization, the worst situation of all is that it is just gravy for single-classed (mostly human) fighters since you are rarely from a meta perspective going to choose to play another race as single-classed fighter.  Half-orc or dwarf maybe if you rolled 17's in Strength 18's in Constitution, but your end game is going to be staring you in the face in either case AND you can't have an 18/00 in Strength with those two races.Either get rid of WS or assume it is ubiquitous.  Don't silo it off into the most favored class and most favored race in the game as an exclusive.</blockquote>

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