Great Cleaver (3.5e Equipment)



The Great Cleaver lives up to its name in that is it little more than an oversized meat cleaver when used. Build like a greatsword, the blade is thick, heavy, and broad. There is no stabbing tip, instead it is used more like an axe. Some Great Cleavers look like a cleaver, others have the handle inset into the blade itself. Regardless of how it looks, it is a powerful, but unwieldy, weapon.

In addition to the appropriate feat it has an additional prerequisite of Str 15. In addition, it is so heavy that in you take a cumulative -2 penalty on attacks after the first one. If you have a Str score of 17 this is reduced to -1, and a Str score of 19 removes the penalty all together.