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Message: <blockquote data-quote="d4" data-source="post: 1160086" data-attributes="member: 12699">i don't see why not. "Most reach weapons described in this chapter double the wielder's natural reach, meaning that a typical Small or Medium wielder of such a weapon can attack a creature 10 feet away..." (PHB, p.113)since Small and Medium creatures have the same reach, i'd suspect their reach weapons would work similarly. the question of whether to allow a one-handed weapon to have reach (albeit at a -2 attack penalty) is another story.because they're not really physically capable of it. look at the race line-up again. look how much smaller the hands of a halfling are than a human. the handle of, say, a longsword is just too big for the halfling to grip effectively. there's going to be differences between a human-sized longsword and a halfling-sized greatsword, because they are built for different sized hands. thus the -2 penalty. or look at it this way: take a ogre-sized dagger and put it in the hands of a halfling. is it the same as a halfling greatsword? they are probably about the same length (they are both two-handed for a halfling and light for an ogre). but the balance is going to be different between the two, and the handle of the ogre dagger is going to be a lot wider and harder for the halfling to grip. now think about an ogre trying to use a halfling greatsword as a dagger -- the handle is going to be so narrow and tiny he's going to have a hard time getting more than two or three fingers around it... this is where the attack penalty is coming from. makes sense to me.it's not (totally) useless. a human can still use that large-sized longsword as a two-handed weapon at a -2 penalty. on the other hand, i don't really see how this situation is any different than in 3.0. of course giants and other large creatures are going to have equipment too big for the smaller PCs to use.</blockquote>

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