Talk:Kriegsmesser (3.5e Equipment)

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Hi Locke! Very good job with your kriegsmesser, and thank you for having appreciated my suggestions for your "messer" :) So friends, that's my point: personally I'm a scholar of old Messer typologies and a D&D aficionado; since Locke introduced a Messer (simple two-handed melee weapon) a Kriegsmesser (exotic two-handed melee weapon), I think I should also introduce other members of the "messer family". I mean a family of wide-and-heavy-bladed single-edged swords that could be called "messers", all with a straight or slightly curved blade suited for terrible slicing attacks and brutal chopping. That's our new "family": 1)"Haumesser"(also Hiebmesser or Dagger Messer; simple light melee weapon): weight 1lb, damage 2d2, critical 20x2 2)"Bauernwehr"(literally "peasant's sidearm", it's a short Messer; simple light melee weapon): weight 2lbs, damage 2d3, critical 20x2 3)"Langes Messer"(War one-handed Messer, it's a one-handed medieval falchion-type sword; martial one-handed melee weapon): weight 4 lbs, damage 2d4, critical 20x2 4)"Grosses Messer"(it's a War hand-and-a-half Kriegsmesser or Bastard Messer; exotic two-handed melee weapon, with -2 penalty in used in one hand with Exotic Weapon Proficiency; it works a little bit like the "Tachi" created by our collegue Azya on this blog, though there is some difference between the two weapons): weight 6 lbs, damage 2d6, critical 20x2 5)"Knochenbrecher" (literally "Bonebreaker", it's a War two-handed Kriegsmesser or Greatmesser; martial two handed weapon): weight 8 lbs, damage 2d8, critical 20x2 This family of swords is characterized by a powerful double-dice damage (increasing proportionally from 2d2 to 2d8) and by a low critical (always 20x2). Since the lack of a group of brutally functional, heavy-and-wide-bladed backswords in 3.5 edition D&D, this group of 5 weapons fills that niche, introducing a new category of swords that can be called "wide-bladed backswords", "heavy backswords" "bladeswords" or whatever you may suggest!!! I've reflected a lot about these new weapons, and I want to share my ideas with you. So I hope you will appreciate my contribution. Thank you very much in advance, guys!