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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7630563" data-attributes="member: 6716779"><p>Since around 2003 I think the D&D designers have dropped the ball with great weapons across multiple editions.</p><p></p><p> Put simply they deal to much damage relative to one handed weapons. Note I'm not disputing they shouldn't but I think a roughly 50% boost in damage (6.5 or 7 vs 4.5 for a d8 weapon). Of course you gave up using a shield.</p><p></p><p> IIRC 3.0 let you deal 50% more strength damage. Maybe they weren't quite good enough but this was mostly a boost of one or two damage. Crits also hurt a lot more.</p><p></p><p>3.5 however tweaked the power attack feat to -1/+2 to hit/damage. Pathfinder added +100% strength modifier. 4Es 1W/2W/3W etc benefits larger weapons a lot more. Not that we spent much time on 4E. 5E critical system also benefits them more but the great weapon master feat is the main offender.</p><p></p><p> I almost miss the old AD&D longsword as I only had to deal with that for 6 years, but we used weapon speeds so daggers, darts, shortswords etc also got used. </p><p></p><p> Says something where 3.0 may have done it best. Anyway am I off track here or have all the designers over the last 20 odd years dropped the ball.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 7630563, member: 6716779"] Since around 2003 I think the D&D designers have dropped the ball with great weapons across multiple editions. Put simply they deal to much damage relative to one handed weapons. Note I'm not disputing they shouldn't but I think a roughly 50% boost in damage (6.5 or 7 vs 4.5 for a d8 weapon). Of course you gave up using a shield. IIRC 3.0 let you deal 50% more strength damage. Maybe they weren't quite good enough but this was mostly a boost of one or two damage. Crits also hurt a lot more. 3.5 however tweaked the power attack feat to -1/+2 to hit/damage. Pathfinder added +100% strength modifier. 4Es 1W/2W/3W etc benefits larger weapons a lot more. Not that we spent much time on 4E. 5E critical system also benefits them more but the great weapon master feat is the main offender. I almost miss the old AD&D longsword as I only had to deal with that for 6 years, but we used weapon speeds so daggers, darts, shortswords etc also got used. Says something where 3.0 may have done it best. Anyway am I off track here or have all the designers over the last 20 odd years dropped the ball. [/QUOTE]
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