Weapons from D&D Experience

[DamnedChoir]

Proficiencies in 4th Ed give you bonuses, rather than allowing you to just use the weapon without penalty. Entirely possible Fighter gets proficiency and thus a bonus in these weapons, or maybe both Dwarf AND Fighter get Proficiency and they stack?

They might not have Weapon Focus anymore, maybe they just renamed it.

Edit: Curses, too slow!

 

[nerfherder]

Perhaps proficiency in a weapon gives +3 to attack roll. (While non-proficiency gives +0.)

Good point, that I hadn't thought of

 

[Rechan]

I'm listening to the Podcast (I don't know how to give you a link; it's on my RSS feeder):

Mearls has said that Proficency (usually) gives you a +2 to hit with a weapon. Swords give you more accuracy. Other weapons (like axes) do more damage, but have less accuracy.

 

[Ovinnik]

I was looking over the Halfling Paladin character sheet (http://www.critical-hits.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/paladin_front.jpg and http://www.critical-hits.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/paladin_back.jpg), and I noticed something: The halfling is listed as using a shortsword and throwing hammer, both of which seem to have a base damage of 1d6.

No more size categories for weapons? Yay! Always sucked to make a shortsword or rapier-wielding halfing and only be doing 1d4 damage.

Edit: Of secondary note, the halfling is listed as having a movement of 5, which we can safely assume is the normal movement rate for halflings, yet he's wearing plate armor. So no more movement penalties for heavy armor, it seems.

 

[neceros]

Well, [w] could have been a placeholder. Also, these are pregenned sheets; these powers were generated from the Character Generator. The books, I'm sure, will have a similar "Weapon normal damage, or [w]."

 

[The Little Raven]

Well, [w] could have been a placeholder. Also, these are pregenned sheets; these powers were generated from the Character Generator. The books, I'm sure, will have a similar "Weapon normal damage, or [w]."

Yeah, [W] stands for "weapon damage."

 

[hong]

I was looking over the Halfling Paladin character sheet (http://www.critical-hits.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/paladin_front.jpg and http://www.critical-hits.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/paladin_back.jpg), and I noticed something: The halfling is listed as using a shortsword and throwing hammer, both of which seem to have a base damage of 1d6.

No more size categories for weapons? Yay! Always sucked to make a shortsword or rapier-wielding halfing and only be doing 1d4 damage.

Looks to me more like they've gone back to the 3E way of doing things: human shortsword = halfling longsword = 1d6 damage. There's no reason for a halfling paladin to be wielding a halfling-sized shortsword AFAICT.

 

[Lord Sessadore]

Or maybe no more movement penalties for heavy armor for defenders, possibly. I believe the dwarf fighter had a speed of 5 as well. Unless dwarves and halflings both have base speed 6 now, and heavy armor only slows you down 1 instead of 2...

 

[ltbaxter]

The halfling is listed as using a shortsword and throwing hammer, both of which seem to have a base damage of 1d6.

No more size categories for weapons? Yay! Always sucked to make a shortsword or rapier-wielding halfing and only be doing 1d4 damage.

No - from Races and Classes (iirc) the halfling is no longer small - he's a medium like all the other currently playable races.

 

[Perun]

Or maybe no more movement penalties for heavy armor for defenders, possibly. I believe the dwarf fighter had a speed of 5 as well. Unless dwarves and halflings both have base speed 6 now, and heavy armor only slows you down 1 instead of 2...

(Human) Cleric, Dwarf, and Halfling all have speed of 5 squares. The cleric wears a chainmail, dwarf wears a scale armour (it's not scale mail anymore), and halfling a plate mail. Hopefully, there are no "slow" characters anymore (or, if there are, I suspect it will be reflected in the overland speed). (As a side note, we know elves have a speed of 7 squares.)

No - from Races and Classes (iirc) the halfling is no longer small - he's a medium like all the other currently playable races.

Halflings are still small, it's on the halfling paladin's character sheet.

Regards.