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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trebor62" data-source="post: 4348291" data-attributes="member: 71781">Yup. The problem is neither of us is comparing apples to apples, but apple to oranges or pears etc. The Falchion  or the oversized weapons use 2d? which is a bell curve verses the straight distribution of the 1d? weapons. Actually WOTC has mixed them together.  But here is a another thought, compare a human sized 1d12 great axe to a Gargantuan 2d10 great axe. Using the max dice criteria the human axe would Vorpal better than eight times more often than the Garganuan axe 1 in 12 verses 1 in 100. Using max die it would be 1 in 12 verses about 1 in 10; yes I am pairing up the 20 d10's to 10 2d10 results with the 1 in 10 to keep things equivant in terms of doing starting damage i.e. d12 verses 2d10. So while the Falchion is a little strange at the bottom of the scale, things are even worse at the top using the max damage. Granted the gargantuan vorpal great axe may never even be seen in a typical campaign. Any way its late here and we are going away tommorrow, but its been a lot of fun batting this back and forth with you Hyp thanks!  ps what do you make of bastard sword verses the great sword in game terms? I suspect the Falchion and bastard swords were either late additions or shoe horned in.</blockquote>