Weapons you wished you'd see sometimes.

[Nifft]

Actually, looking back, my group's been pretty good.

We had a halberd guy a while back, and a glaive guy, and a monk who uses a quarterstaff.

We had a dagger-guy and a bastard-sword-guy, and now we've got a rapier-guy.

Even a bow-guy who had a nice spear as backup.

C, -- N

 

[Three_Haligonians]

What I see all too often is dual-wielders who use twin weapons. Two daggers, two shortswords, two handaxes. With all those feats that make it really easy you can move up to two longswords, two bastard swords, two greataxes, heck.. probably two awl pikes or two scythes if you really work at it. Oh yeah.. and of course.. two scimitars (man what a stigma that has now eh?)

Anyway, what I would like to see more of are dual-wielders who mix it up. The net and trident is one example and the Complete Warrior has a whole section of feats devoted to handing out benefits to certain combonations; a sword and dagger, an axe and hammer, mace and pick etc.

Right now, one of my players has equipped her halfling with a rapier and dagger, and someday I'll get around to playing my barbarian who uses a spear and spiked gauntlet but generally speaking I find too many TWF'ers using "the twins"

J from Three Haligonians

 

[Tuzenbach]

Spetums, dammit.........SPETUMS!!!

 

[Ace]

Don't forget that halbards, for some reason, are not reach weapons.



I see pretty much everything in the games I run and play in with the exception of weapons that I don't really want to see, like dire flails or dwarven urgrosh. I've only seen a spiked chain used once...

The D&D halberd is actually a pollaxe. It fits all of the criteria slash/thrust -- check -- disarm/trip-- check not reach? check

In the game s I have been in we never see much of anything except longswords, the occasional spear, a glaive, daggers and once a two bladed darth maul special.

 

[Ciaran]

Spetums, dammit.........SPETUMS!!!

GLAIVE-GUISARME.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

What I see all too often is dual-wielders who use twin weapons.

That's because TWF is already so feat intensive that you don't have the "space" to accomodate Weapon Focus / Specialization, etc., in more than one weapon.

 

[Rothe]

I agree wholeheartedly with this. There are very few rapiers in my games, mostly carried by elven wizards who may realistically expect to fight other unarmored folks. I made a ruling similar to the whip, where a rapier just can't hurt anyone with an armor bonus of +3 or higher. This lets it stand a chance of hurting folks wearing the low-bonus armors (such as leather and hide) but largely stripping out the higher-bonus metal armors.

That being said, my favorite weapon for druids is the longspear (I'll even take a feat to be proficient with it). With a wolf animal companion, an enemy can't effectively close with you: you get two attacks without it being able to attack your druid at all. Keep a cure spell prepped and you can tap the wolf if it starts to get hurt. Very useful tactic, it's always worked out well in the games I've played.

May I say "excellent" on both points. A quick an easy way to account for rapiers and using the spear for one of the prime reasons humans used them for for millenia.

To me, millenia of human conflict is the best play test of what's a superior weapon and what is not. There's good reasons many exotic weapons remained exotic, and others spread across the world.

 

[Mistwell]

Right now, I play a trident-wielding cleric.

So am I! I started as a vague adaptation on a worshipper of the Drowned One from A Song of Fire and Ice series, and a trident made sense. I have drifted from that theme, but stuck with the trident ane water theme in general.

I do sometimes mind that my weapon has a worse crit threat than similar weapons. But, it's a minor issue.

In the other game I play, I have a Rogue using a Great Spear (got a free exotic weapon proficiency), It's been fun. 2d6 damage reach weapon.

 

[Rothe]

What of the bec-de-corbin? Do the rules accurately reflect what a bad-ass you can be with such a weapon? I refer to the first fight scene between Lancerlot and Arthur in Excalibur.

 

[Three_Haligonians]

That's because TWF is already so feat intensive that you don't have the "space" to accomodate Weapon Focus / Specialization, etc., in more than one weapon.

Ahh.. too true. I guess the only thing I have to counter this is that the Tempest PrC has a special ability that says if you have Weapon Focus/Specialization in one, you are treated as having it in the other as well.

But, even though the Tempest is -the- TWF PrC, your point stands.

J from Three Haligonians