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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Furious_Puffin" data-source="post: 6861857" data-attributes="member: 11831">^ If you think the decision to do this is meaningful, you should not (edited to add this critical word) ameliorate the mechanical disadvantages of the choice. That would be removing player agency, which is a terrible idea. The fact you instictively go for this tells you that the decision was bad in the first place. I  disagree with the implication here that choosing to play a 'wizard' or a 'fighter' (Two sides of the class equation) is purely one of asthetics, but choosing to use your fathers shortsword instead of a rapier is a deep meaningful decision. These are all mechanical choices as well as having a RP impact. I'm personally in favour of decoupling the mechanics and the RP to a greater or lesser extent. It's actually insightful that you then say that the fighter's choice - choosing between a 'defender' archetype and a 'duelist' archetype isn't meaningful, despite the fact that it's going to shape the way the character plays.Nah, shortsword is one handed weapon, letting it do 1d12 would probably not be ideal. But if you came to me with that and said that, I'd say 'sure, let's let the shortsword do 1d6+1 damage because it's your ancestral weapon, and it can count as magical past level 6 as it's so infused with your desire for revenge that you can damage magical creates with it' Bam! Seems cool to me, and means that the first time the party fights a ghost, you can use your fathers ancestral sword, instead of reaching into the golf bag and grabbing out some magical axe you found somewhere in what has to be one of the most immersion breaking things required of fighters ever.If you play in the sort of game where routinely taking players equipment of them is part of the game (I rarely/never do this because it's usually not fun in practice, and is indeed warned against in atleast one published adventure), then yeah, the magical knuckledusters works fine to. Make it a magical hat of kickboxing. Who cares, just as long as he isn't gimped</blockquote>

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