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<blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5021774" data-attributes="member: 71571">Funny, Humans do it all the time.Here's the thing.&nbsp; A minotaur's racial traits that define it are those bull horns, and that ability to gore you with them.&nbsp; If the PC minotaur didn't have that, I'd call shinanegans.BUTThe size of the weapon is not a defining trait of minotaurs.&nbsp; It doesn't call to their minotaurness.&nbsp; All it is, is a big sword.Here's a hint, the only effect that does is Moar Damage.&nbsp; Does your +2 Strength and +2 Constitution already not encapsulate your bigness for you?Goliaths, which are bigger, don't get oversized weapons either.Quit whining.But, again, oversized weapons don't define minotaurs.&nbsp; No one goes 'Oh, you can tell it's a minotaur by the large axe in its hand.'&nbsp; BS.You can tell it's a minotaur, because it has a bull's head.Well... bladelings -do- have a PC right up in 4e.But, the very fact you think that the lack of a big axe gimps a minotaur exposes that you think 'Minotaur' means 'big combat damage' when in fact, it means 'Dude with a bull's head.'Always has.Always will.They preserved the defining minotaurness, while getting rid of a balance issue that actually did not impact the identity of the race.Besides, and this is something you must remember.Monsters don't use the normal weapon damage tables for PCs anyways--they use their own rules for damage dealing in their powers that have nothing to do with weapons.&nbsp; So it's even a moot point to say the monster minotaurs have 'oversized weapons' and therefore you can too.&nbsp; It doesn't even -make sense- given the game design.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DracoSuave, post: 5021774, member: 71571"] Funny, Humans do it all the time. Here's the thing. A minotaur's racial traits that define it are those bull horns, and that ability to gore you with them. If the PC minotaur didn't have that, I'd call shinanegans. BUT The size of the weapon is not a defining trait of minotaurs. It doesn't call to their minotaurness. All it is, is a big sword. Here's a hint, the only effect that does is Moar Damage. Does your +2 Strength and +2 Constitution already not encapsulate your bigness for you? Goliaths, which are bigger, don't get oversized weapons either. Quit whining. But, again, oversized weapons don't define minotaurs. No one goes 'Oh, you can tell it's a minotaur by the large axe in its hand.' BS. You can tell it's a minotaur, because it has a bull's head. Well... bladelings -do- have a PC right up in 4e. But, the very fact you think that the lack of a big axe gimps a minotaur exposes that you think 'Minotaur' means 'big combat damage' when in fact, it means 'Dude with a bull's head.' Always has. Always will. They preserved the defining minotaurness, while getting rid of a balance issue that actually did not impact the identity of the race. Besides, and this is something you must remember. Monsters don't use the normal weapon damage tables for PCs anyways--they use their own rules for damage dealing in their powers that have nothing to do with weapons. So it's even a moot point to say the monster minotaurs have 'oversized weapons' and therefore you can too. It doesn't even -make sense- given the game design. [/QUOTE]

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