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<blockquote data-quote="Green Knight" data-source="post: 1085706" data-attributes="member: 2723">Yeah, speaking as someone who's played a couple characters in 3E with bastard swords, the bastard sword is NOT a throwaway. On average, you do a 5 or a 6 on damage. Add in an average Str score of 14 (Average for a Warrior type, anyway) and you got a guy regularly doing 7 to 8 points of damage on a swing. That's pretty much instant death for any creature which you fight at 1st-level. And in my case, I had a habit of consistently rolling above average (I don't know why, but when rolling damage for a bastard sword, I almost always roll above average. I'm also a madman with crits, too). I remember one game of Ravenloft where a Ranger of mine did INSANE amounts of damage with the bastard sword. I LOVED that sword! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> &nbsp;But anyway, yeah, the bastard sword is definitely a worthwhile weapon. &nbsp;As for the subject at hand, when not burning a feat on bastard sword proficiency, I've always been fond of warhammers, myself. You do the same damage as the longsword, with x3 crit, though the threat range is only 20, but the weapon is also bludgeoning. Which means that skeletons and the like don't give you any trouble.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Green Knight, post: 1085706, member: 2723"] Yeah, speaking as someone who's played a couple characters in 3E with bastard swords, the bastard sword is NOT a throwaway. On average, you do a 5 or a 6 on damage. Add in an average Str score of 14 (Average for a Warrior type, anyway) and you got a guy regularly doing 7 to 8 points of damage on a swing. That's pretty much instant death for any creature which you fight at 1st-level. And in my case, I had a habit of consistently rolling above average (I don't know why, but when rolling damage for a bastard sword, I almost always roll above average. I'm also a madman with crits, too). I remember one game of Ravenloft where a Ranger of mine did INSANE amounts of damage with the bastard sword. I LOVED that sword! :D But anyway, yeah, the bastard sword is definitely a worthwhile weapon. As for the subject at hand, when not burning a feat on bastard sword proficiency, I've always been fond of warhammers, myself. You do the same damage as the longsword, with x3 crit, though the threat range is only 20, but the weapon is also bludgeoning. Which means that skeletons and the like don't give you any trouble. [/QUOTE]

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