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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Inyssius" data-source="post: 4759544" data-attributes="member: 65483">"The oversized weapons thing" wasn't that complicated (you know pretty much all of this already, I'm just providing background):1. When the Monster Manual came out, they included some extra races in the back of the book. As a stopgap measure, so you could have Bugbear NPCs and so forth before they got a full racial writeup--NPCs only, mind you; the stuff was designed with monsters and so forth in mind, and should only be allowed for PCs with the DM's discretion.2. Some of those races were large-ish. To represent this, their short MM racial statblock included the ability to wield oversized weapons.3. This turned out to be a bad idea, and was dropped from those races entirely when they eventually got a full racial writeup for player characters.----That's all there was to it. An abortive early-run idea that might have been balanced for monster use (as the introduction to that section actually said) but (as the MM also brought up as a possibility) evidently not for player characters. No playtesting, no Goliath, no DDI involvement.</blockquote>