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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8076219" data-attributes="member: 93670">Sure... Precise, skillfull, whatever.&nbsp; Take rapier &amp; other thrusting weapons designed to stab through&nbsp; gaps in armor as an example.&nbsp; 5e is too simple to compare but back in 3.5 the rapier &amp; scimitar were both 1d6/18-20x2&nbsp; with pierce/slash the only difference but if it couldn't roll below a 2 or 3 on the proficiency die &amp; was /19-20x2 instead it would feel viscerally different in a character who could use either &amp; there are tons of weapons that could reasonably be better in the eyes of one player while being mechanically equal or even worse than some other weapon in some or even every other way.&nbsp;edit: [USER=63508]@Minigiant[/USER] I used it sparingly with magic weapons in one campaign &amp; players loved them. Sure it was subjective if that one was better than the thing they already had or not but switching them to proficiency dice was more work than getting bob to remember the cool thing his magic doodad did &amp; switching them wasn't that bad after the first session or so of occasional &quot;oops&quot; moments.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8076219, member: 93670"] Sure... Precise, skillfull, whatever. Take rapier & other thrusting weapons designed to stab through gaps in armor as an example. 5e is too simple to compare but back in 3.5 the rapier & scimitar were both 1d6/18-20x2 with pierce/slash the only difference but if it couldn't roll below a 2 or 3 on the proficiency die & was /19-20x2 instead it would feel viscerally different in a character who could use either & there are tons of weapons that could reasonably be better in the eyes of one player while being mechanically equal or even worse than some other weapon in some or even every other way. edit: [USER=63508]@Minigiant[/USER] I used it sparingly with magic weapons in one campaign & players loved them. Sure it was subjective if that one was better than the thing they already had or not but switching them to proficiency dice was more work than getting bob to remember the cool thing his magic doodad did & switching them wasn't that bad after the first session or so of occasional "oops" moments. [/QUOTE]

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