Weapons

[Romnipotent]

I've wielded overly large swords, Huge Great Swords and the like! Monkey grip and a few rules "exceptions" by the DM to make it funny (what he wanted). I was "medium" but I had a huge sheet of sharp metal! monkeygrip! monkeygrip!

LordBOB, as you can see, sometimes things are... humorous when not intended to be, or we'll drag it off in that direction.

silliest weapon I ever got my hands on was physics and magic mixing in D&D! I laughed maniacly when the DM applied them.

 

[Storyteller01]

I think you mean Inuyasha.

I like how the swords physical dimensions were edited.

We generally use longswords and greatswords...stuff from the core.

Nah, Reironi Kenshin. The sidekick in white had a sword (before Kenshin cut it ih half) who's blade had similar dimensions (Wider than his shoulders, and nearly as tall as he was). Believe it was called the horse cutting sword, or something similar.

You see it in the opening credits.

 

[Storyteller01]

So, it is a sharpened tower shield that you swing around rather than bash with? How does it provide cover when you are swinging it? Does it have some kind of strength requirement to use? 1/2 inch thick steel weighs 20 pounds per square foot. you have 24 square feet of steel here, so at 1/4 inch thick you are talking about a 240 pound weapon. I suppose it could be a little thinner, but at some point it won't be rigid enough to be useable.

Please tell me you have some kind of typo in your description.

There are pics of tower shield/spears (ends were sharpened). This IS a fantasy setting, you know.

It can't be any crazier than a +3 defending greatsword of throwing and returning (3.0, but it is by the RAW).

EDIT: Question, since we're talking about weapons. Now I know that the 3.5 monkey grip feat allows you to use a weapon larger than you without penaly. Does that mean your using a Large Longsword as a Greatsword (ie Two Handed)?

 

[JimAde]

IIRC Monkeygrip actually lets you use a larger weapon with the same effort (so the Large longsword is 1 handed) but with a penalty (-2 I believe). Am I wrong?

Wouldn't be the first time.

 

[Storyteller01]

Prerequisite: A stupid DM or $20 for your DM...

Normal: Try and use a lame, oversized weapon and your DM laughs at you. The other players will probably take you out back and beat you with a garbage can.

Tking the joking a bit far aren't we?

 

[Coredump]

--A Tattoo Dagger
This starts as a cold Iron Matte Grey Dagger +2 with a command word; by speaking the command word and pressing it to flesh, it sears into the skin (causing 1 point of damage) and magically becoming a small tattoo of a dagger. (Detect Magic can reveal its presence, but the dagger/tattoo cannot be destroyed.) Speaking the command word again causes it to disappear and the dagger rematerializes in your hand.

Cool.
Stolen.

The dagger will have some runes/design/whatever on one side. When the command word is spoken, the dagger heats up. If pressed into flesh, a burn version of the runes is caused. But it is magical and can be 'used'. Just not sure what ability. Perhaps CLW or somesuch. Also not sure how many 'tattoos' can be in play at once. (one per person, but how many people.) But I like the concept.

 

[Corinth]

Speaking of Rurouni Kenshin, how about Kenshin's sword- the sakabatou, or "reverse-bladed sword"? As it's just a katana with the edge on the inside, I'm inclined to use the bastard sword statblock with the damage changed to nonlethal and the damage type to Bashing. (Take a -4 penalty to the attack role to do lethal, Slashing damage.) I am undecided on whether or not to require the taking of an Exotic Weapon Proficiency to use it without non-proficiency penalty (it is just a reverse-bladed katana).

 

[Storyteller01]

Speaking of Rurouni Kenshin, how about Kenshin's sword- the sakabatou, or "reverse-bladed sword"? As it's just a katana with the edge on the inside, I'm inclined to use the bastard sword statblock with the damage changed to nonlethal and the damage type to Bashing. (Take a -4 penalty to the attack role to do lethal, Slashing damage.) I am undecided on whether or not to require the taking of an Exotic Weapon Proficiency to use it without non-proficiency penalty (it is just a reverse-bladed katana).

I would. Standard katana users (is their such a thing) are used to the weight being near the rear/hand guard. Change like Kenshin's blade in enough to get annoying (it doesn't flow like it's supposed to!!).

It's like trying to hit a target with the back of the typical blade: great for blocking but striking just feels wierd.

If nothing else, I'd say (if your proficient with a katana to begin with) that you take a -2 until you gain a new level. Shows a level of inconvenience passing with time...

 

[ajanders]

Very nifty!

But, um, how fast does it stretch out?

You invoke the power, grab the end, and pull. Don't let the pressure off.
We stretched it a mile by having the party rogue grab one end and start walking.
We've used it with a weight to climb down 50 foot towers and it stretched as fast as the grappling hook fell.
Right now, we're calling it "instant" because nobody wants to do the math and find out how many seconds it would take a given object to fall. We just dramatic pause until it hits the ground.

 

[glass]

IIRC Monkeygrip actually lets you use a larger weapon with the same effort (so the Large longsword is 1 handed) but with a penalty (-2 I believe). Am I wrong?

No, I think you're right.


glass.