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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wormwood" data-source="post: 1202936" data-attributes="member: 928"><p><span style="color: silver">You are not undertsanding the Weapon Size Category rule:</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #231f20"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">"<em>A weapon's size category isn't the same as its size as an object. </em>Instead, a weapon's size category is keyed to the size of the intended <em>wielder.</em></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #231f20"><span style="color: lemonchiffon"><em>In general, </em>a light weapon is an object two size categories smaller than the wielder..."</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #231f20"></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #231f20"><span style="color: silver">Emphasis mine, of course. "In general" does not mean: 'Always'.</span></p><p></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #231f20"><span style="color: silver">The 'Light' category encompasses everything from spiked gauntlets to saps to light maces to Legolas's stabby arrows. </span></p><p></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #231f20"><span style="color: silver">Presumably, it would also include such weapons as steak knives, sharpened spoons and brass knuckles of the same <strong>Weapon Size Category </strong>as their weilder.</span></p><p></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #231f20"><span style="color: silver">If you wandered into a Halfling kitchen and tried to stab me with a [weapon size category: Small] steak knife, you're looking at a -2 size penalty. Just as if you climbed up the beanstalk and slipped on a pair of [weapon size category: Large] Brass Knuckles.</span> </p><p></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #231f20"></p><p></span><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">edit: Kamikaze Midget posts much faster than I do.</span></p><p></span><p style="text-align: left"></p><p></span><p style="text-align: left"></p></blockquote><p></p>

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