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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storyteller01" data-source="post: 1932477" data-attributes="member: 20931">Problem is, it's not a situation that can be well defined. What one culture conciders a dagger, others may concider something else. Also, until mass production was introduced, weapons were usually custom made. Even those that weren't did not have the exact size, weight, or balance. Each was unique. A dagger for one person will vary in length compared to the size, weight and balance that another is comfortable with. And this is just comparing humans! Clarification is good in some instances, but how can you clarify something that never had a standard until roughly a century ago? And even with such clarification, they is an incredible amount of room for interpretation...As for those in towns, look at it ecomonically (the bane of all creative thought). If a halfling comes into my shop asking for a small shortsword, what will I do? Will I get my materials and make a new blade, or use a premade dagger blade? Statistically, they are all but identical. As mentioned earlier, the main difference would be weight and balance. Since the weight of any piercing blade is closest to the handle (regardless of size) all I would have to do is adjust the handle.As for size mechanics, how many people here have played with toy swords meant for your children? Was it that hard? Did you feel overly burdened with the change in size or weight? Granted, toys are not weighted the same as a weapon, but how is it different from using a bat made for you and using a bat made for your children (one handed, no less)?Now reverse that. Is it hard to use a metal pipe with a 4" diameter? Any mugger can tell you that it isn't, and most one handed swords won't weight more than 4 to 5 lbs. Even that is concidered heavy...  As for letting a wizard use a greatsword, obviously not. He has not been trained in the use of two handed weapons or weapons with that mass. Now if he ran into a 'halfling shortsword' or a small short sword, then yes, he could use it without penaly, as its stats are identical to that of the dagger he has been trained to use. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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