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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3761435" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>Call me a 100% supporter of the weapon size rules of 3.5.</p><p></p><p>At first, I balked at the 3.5 weapon size rules, thinking them odd, but became a convert after I noticed I had direct physical evidence of the sense behind them.</p><p></p><p>Among other things, I own a skean dhu (a small boot-blade) the length of my hand as well as a letter opener of the same length which is a <em>scale replica</em> of a basket hilted long blade in a museum in Toledo, Spain.</p><p></p><p>The hilt of the skean dhu takes up about half of the blade's overall length. Its more than an inch around. In contrast, the scale replica blade has a hilt less than an inch long, and is as narrow as a PDA stylus.</p><p></p><p>The width of the letter opener's blade is about that of a standard #2 pencil, whereas the skean dhu has a blade 3/4" wide at the base.</p><p></p><p>The volume and mass of the skean dhu is many times that of the letter opener.</p><p></p><p>Under 3.0 rules, the two blades- essentially a dagger for a human and one-handed weapon for a pixie- would have the same stats since they are blades of the same size.</p><p></p><p>Yet clearly they are not. A human seeking to use the letter opener as a blade would cut his hands wielding it thus (since he'd be gripping several inches of blade), and would likely break it on the first strike. A pixie wielding the dagger would stagger under its mass, and would find it to be more like wielding a caber than a longsword.</p><p></p><p>So count me among those supporting carrying over the 3.5 weapon size rules into 4Ed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 3761435, member: 19675"] Call me a 100% supporter of the weapon size rules of 3.5. At first, I balked at the 3.5 weapon size rules, thinking them odd, but became a convert after I noticed I had direct physical evidence of the sense behind them. Among other things, I own a skean dhu (a small boot-blade) the length of my hand as well as a letter opener of the same length which is a [I]scale replica[/I] of a basket hilted long blade in a museum in Toledo, Spain. The hilt of the skean dhu takes up about half of the blade's overall length. Its more than an inch around. In contrast, the scale replica blade has a hilt less than an inch long, and is as narrow as a PDA stylus. The width of the letter opener's blade is about that of a standard #2 pencil, whereas the skean dhu has a blade 3/4" wide at the base. The volume and mass of the skean dhu is many times that of the letter opener. Under 3.0 rules, the two blades- essentially a dagger for a human and one-handed weapon for a pixie- would have the same stats since they are blades of the same size. Yet clearly they are not. A human seeking to use the letter opener as a blade would cut his hands wielding it thus (since he'd be gripping several inches of blade), and would likely break it on the first strike. A pixie wielding the dagger would stagger under its mass, and would find it to be more like wielding a caber than a longsword. So count me among those supporting carrying over the 3.5 weapon size rules into 4Ed. [/QUOTE]
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