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<blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 6674669" data-attributes="member: 40177">And I'm all for that sort of play - I try to do something similar.&nbsp; But it's not rules-as-written, which was my original point.&nbsp; Weapon Specialists affect combat, which is important to 95% of all games (not an exact number).&nbsp; Which means that if that option exists, everyone needs to take it.&nbsp; And if everyone takes it, they either take the weapon that interests them, which leads to the situation I described, or they take the longsword so they can be assured of finding appropriate strength magic items as the game goes on... and every fighter becomes the same.&nbsp; It's not a fun situation, and it's sucked in 1e onwards.&nbsp; In the 1e game I recently played in, if you were a fighter, you specced in either longsword or longbow.&nbsp; Anything else was a dumb move.&nbsp; (One guy specced in heavy flail, and I believe he wound up finding exactly one... a measly +1 flail that became his most treasured possession, while everyone around him was swinging +3 longswords).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wik, post: 6674669, member: 40177"] And I'm all for that sort of play - I try to do something similar. But it's not rules-as-written, which was my original point. Weapon Specialists affect combat, which is important to 95% of all games (not an exact number). Which means that if that option exists, everyone needs to take it. And if everyone takes it, they either take the weapon that interests them, which leads to the situation I described, or they take the longsword so they can be assured of finding appropriate strength magic items as the game goes on... and every fighter becomes the same. It's not a fun situation, and it's sucked in 1e onwards. In the 1e game I recently played in, if you were a fighter, you specced in either longsword or longbow. Anything else was a dumb move. (One guy specced in heavy flail, and I believe he wound up finding exactly one... a measly +1 flail that became his most treasured possession, while everyone around him was swinging +3 longswords). [/QUOTE]

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