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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3632990" data-attributes="member: 13966">Which is exactly what I said, just in a different way.  I said that the 3E design philosophy is why katanas are just considered bastard swords in 3E; they use the same stats and all (just with the addition of being masterwork, which doesn't really make sense anyway since katanas varied in quality too).  Similarly, the scimitar should encompass all similar historical weapons, except for the much larger/longer ones, which the falchion should encompass.Yes, I know D&D falchions aren't the same as historical falchions, but historical accuracy isn't really D&D's focus anyway, heheh. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> And I mentioned how the saber is Forgotten Realms material; FR stuff just has to be more powerful than core stuff, otherwise it wouldn't be the Realms, now would it? :\  It could easily have just been a scimitar in D&D stats, but that would be inconsistent with the escalation of power in the Realms compared to non-Realms material....Just like you can't kick a random pebble in the Realms without hitting Elminster's This, or Elminster's That, or Elminster's Simulacrum, or Elminster's Old Vorpal Left Shoe +5, or Elminster himself. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /></blockquote>

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