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Post by Scott on Apr 10, 2016 13:18:26 GMT -5
I've recently made some changes to certain weapons. Battle axes, footman's maces and flails, maybe a few others, are now considered two-handed weapons. For years, decades even, I've debated, but never made a ruling on the weapons. I've officially adopted the Mythus weapon descriptions for my D&D game. In my games, clerics take the biggest hit. 99% of them have been using footmen's maces or flails with shields.
Thoughts?
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Post by GRWelsh on Apr 10, 2016 15:24:14 GMT -5
You may want to increase the damage they cause, to offset the limitation of no longer being able to use a shield.
You could, potentially, keep them the way they are in the book, but add two-handed stats for some weapons (making them analogous to bastard swords in that way), or introduce larger, two-handed only versions of those weapons (great axe, heavy mace, heavy flail, etc.).
Another potential change: I always thought crossbows, with their lower rates of fire, should do more damage in relation to bows. So, you could either change the damage of the existing ones in the book, or introduce newer, more advanced crossbows with heavier pulls that do more damage.
I do like the idea of making some other weapons better in relation to swords and bows, and therefore making it more of a choice, rather than just "long sword, long bow" every time.
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Post by geneweigel on Apr 10, 2016 17:43:06 GMT -5
What we did, and this was way back in 1983, was instead of altering standards we added that two-handed versions are bigger and harder to manufacture.
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Post by foster1941 on Apr 11, 2016 13:17:27 GMT -5
I also follow Mythus and declare those weapons two-handed by default. In response to complaints I softened that to allow characters with strength 13+ to wield battle axes and footman's maces one-handed (or get a +1 bonus to damage if they choose to use two hands), but footman's flails and morning stars are always two-handed.
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Post by geneweigel on Apr 12, 2016 14:59:06 GMT -5
The encumbrance was what we were gauging by to get the big ass Conan comic axes EX: Vallejo cover SSOC #9 1975 versus the more subtle weapon in each hand ones (Buscema cover of KING CONAN #1 1980 )
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Post by geneweigel on Apr 12, 2016 15:01:08 GMT -5
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Post by Scott on May 4, 2016 11:57:11 GMT -5
Apples to oranges, I know, but I was feeling nostalgic and reading through Moldvay Basic, and battle axe is listed as a two-handed weapon.
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