Vorpal weapons?

[CmdrSam]

Deadguy is correct. I said "the weapon's base critical multiplier is tripled," not "the weapon inflicts triple damage," as you seem to be reading.

Oh, all right, sorry. I was confused by the phrasing, I guess. It seems odd to me how disproportionately better your version of vorpal is on, say, axes and scythes than on swords, when I'm more likely to picture a vorpal sword... (Lewis Carroll was, too...)

--Sam L-L

 

[kreynolds]

It seems odd to me how disproportionately better your version of vorpal is on, say, axes and scythes than on swords

It makes sense though. Bigger and nastier blades hurt more. It would seem very disproportionate to me if vorpal daggers hurt just as much as gargantuan vorpal greataxes.

when I'm more likely to picture a vorpal sword... (Lewis Carroll was, too...)

Who is Lewis Carroll?

 

[Deadguy]

Lewis Carroll was the Victorian author who wrote such famous tales as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Alice through the Looking Glass". It's from the latter that the famous use of the term 'vorpal blade' comes, in the poem Jabberwocky:

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

 

[Avatar28]

So if vorpal blades go snicker-snack, perhaps we should add another d6 of sonic damage to them as well? It has a ultrasonic enchantment on it that causes the blade to vibrate ultrasonically and giving it the ability to cut through flesh with ease.