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<blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 6399774" data-attributes="member: 6777454">Your first point is moot. I already said if you clarify that Great Weapon Expertise applies exclusively to the base weapon damage and not to additional effects the weapon might cause, it is fixed.The second is just your personal preference and a bit silly. If you don't know someone is coming up behind you, they can swing and smack you in the back of the head using a baseball back just as easily as they can stab you with a knife. Forget baseball bat, they could smack you with a chair and that is a lot larger and easy to notice than an axe. Axes are generally not laden with bells and whistles that give people lots of notice before you hit them. As such, an axe or a spear or anything else is just as likely to catch you by surprise as a one-handed weapon.And if you want to say sneak attack damage comes not from the surprise but from hitting a particularly vital and unguarded area of the body. Well... a knife in the kidney or an axe to the spine-- it works just as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GreenTengu, post: 6399774, member: 6777454"] Your first point is moot. I already said if you clarify that Great Weapon Expertise applies exclusively to the base weapon damage and not to additional effects the weapon might cause, it is fixed. The second is just your personal preference and a bit silly. If you don't know someone is coming up behind you, they can swing and smack you in the back of the head using a baseball back just as easily as they can stab you with a knife. Forget baseball bat, they could smack you with a chair and that is a lot larger and easy to notice than an axe. Axes are generally not laden with bells and whistles that give people lots of notice before you hit them. As such, an axe or a spear or anything else is just as likely to catch you by surprise as a one-handed weapon. And if you want to say sneak attack damage comes not from the surprise but from hitting a particularly vital and unguarded area of the body. Well... a knife in the kidney or an axe to the spine-- it works just as well. [/QUOTE]

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