D&D General Weapons should break left and right

[Eubani]

Not sure what you're getting work up about. Take a deep breath, take a walk outside, let your toes touch the grass. No one is attacking you or anything you believe in. Relax.

Sorry you don't like a counter opinion. Let's be honest, whenever these restrictive mechanics are proposed they are always aimed at martials. When do see spell failure, or casting rolls or divine refusal aimed at casters?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Are you a card carrying member of the Spellcasters Supremacy Society? There is already a wide enough gap between casters and martials without reducing their one glimmer of hope.

The concept of weapon over-specialization is the one ray of hope for martials keeping up with casters? What game do you play?

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Sorry you don't like a counter opinion. Let's be honest, whenever these restrictive mechanics are proposed they are always aimed at martials. When do see spell failure, or casting rolls or divine refusal aimed at casters?

I do like a counter opinion. What you were doing was just thread crapping. You're being a lot more communicative now. Progress!

I am not the OP. I don't even love the OP's idea, partially for the reasons you presented (which you did in a pretty juvenile way, hence my response). I actually somewhat agree with you, just not the way you made your opinion known.

I see what the OP is going for: realism. Is the proposed implementation the best way to go about this? I don't think so. And I agree with you that this can't come at the cost of increasing the divide between casters and martials in 5E.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Another way the GWM can lose a weapon is some variation of disarm. In 3.5, I had a monk who had spent the feats for disarm and had great fun taking the opposition's powerful weapons away from them.

I would love to see disarm used by both sides more. I should make that happen.

 

[AlViking]

So if a character breaks sword #1, what stops them from pulling sword #2? The encumbrance rules certainly aren't going to matter much, even a greatsword only weighs 6 lbs. At 11th level fighters have 3 attacks per round and action surge which means up to 6 for some fights. On average they'll roll a 1 ever other combat or even more ... how is that fun? How on earth does that not feel like they're being punished for choosing not to be a spellcaster?

I had a DM that added this to their game long ago, it was one of the reasons I left the game.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I say turn it from a punishment into a reward.

When a character rolls a 1 on a Weapon Attack or Spell Attack, they can choose to break their weapon or spell focus and reroll. If they hit, it counts as a critical hit.

I can see this working. Reminds me of shield sacrifice in Level Up.

 

[Micah Sweet]

This doesn't mean that this is a bad idea. It's just a bad idea when implemented in a system where spellcasters have an existing advantage.

Not sure I love this concept, but it is something to contemplate in a greenfields game system.

What's a greenfields game system?

 

[James Gasik]

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Ah verisimilitude, when you get tired beating martials with realism use verisimilitude as the excuse. Its funny how casters always avoid these beatings.

Well, naturally! They do magic, magic isn't real, so it isn't bound by any notions of "realism"!

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

What's a greenfields game system?

My bad, I introduced software development speak. It basically means designing from scratch, or starting fresh.

Greenfield project - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[TiQuinn]

People citing items breaking in older editions arent considering that it comes about in specific circumstances, and each item gets a saving throw with magic items gaining bonuses to such saving throws based on their power.

It is a risk when faced with specific challenges, not a bad day with your swing. In 1e at least, I cant speak to 2e

2e was the same way. But even that system showed that item breakage could be exhausting as a player. Getting hit with a fireball meant rolling for one’s entire equipment list to see what was or wasn’t affected. This just became silly in practical use.