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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barantor" data-source="post: 6496402" data-attributes="member: 6778128">I houserule it that if someone wants to try and use a weapon that could realistically do a different type of damage, then that damage is either 1 dice down or half in the case of slashing with daggers. Things like Mauls or Warhammers, unless they have told me they have a pointed backside of the weapon head; only do one type of damage.I've noticed that lots of folks get hung up on 5E RAW stuff because they are either used to it, or not used to the DM just house-ruling things (or they just want to argue <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    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ). I think most of the rules are fine and would hate to go back to the days of 3rd edition where fighters were in a rush to get exotic weapon proficiency for bastard swords so they could do more sword/board damage.If you DM uses the minor rules tables in the DMG for magic or special weapons, many of them halve the weight of weapons anyway....</blockquote>