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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Coroc" data-source="post: 7374561" data-attributes="member: 6895991">[MENTION=12377]77IM[/MENTION] #794) OMG sorry i have to reply to this: A real Long sword (the 50" to  55" variant used mainly two handed) is about 3 Pounds. that is as heavy as a Renaissance rapier.  The AD&D Longsword is more akin a bastard sword so about 2,5 Pounds max. If you allow Finesse for rapier then you are not unrealistic to alow it for Longswords.Draw cuts are the speciality of Katanas and  Sabres and the like, Slim curved blades which get an Advantage of the curvature due to the altered effective blade geometry. With a Longsword you preferable stab, and if you cut than you use the last third of the blade with as much force as you can.6) The longsword is already Special in that everyone has a different Picture of what it looks like weighs and which capabilities it has got, and most of it has nothing to do with history or reality. Other weapons in D&D are simulated and viewed much more close to their historical and RL Counterparts. The worst of it all was that most magic weapons in classical campaigns were longswords so everybody wants one and everybody wants to be proficient with it.</blockquote>