Talk:Sword Sharp (5e Campaign Setting)/Gear and Equipment

Gloves of "Hand Strength"

Aside from the somewhat silly name, you realize that by removing the two-handed tag from the weapon you can't benefit from the Great Weapon Fighting Style, which says "the weapon must have the versatile or two-handed property to benefit from this ability"?

You should either specify that the weapon still counts as two-handed whenever beneficial, or just specify that it allows two-handed weapons to be wielded with one hand without penalty. It might also be nice if the Gloves of Hand Thing let you ignore the Heavy property on a weapon, allowing small characters to wield them without disadvantage. Spanambula (talk) 07:55, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

The glove of hand strength is ment to allow the players to dual wield long swords or attack with a great axe and a shield so basically here's how it goes

Heavy > normal weight > light > upgraded attack dice ( d4 to d6, d6 to d8 and so on)

Two handed > versatile (upgraded attack dice) > Dual wielding

Don't worry great weapon fighting will still be avaible

XX the memenist Xx (talk) 16:39, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Ok, I'm going to try to explain this as simply as I can. Unless you specifically state otherwise, whatever you make on the wiki is understood to obey all the existing Core D&D rules. If you say "any weapon with the two handed property loses this property" everyone is going to assume every rule or ability that uses that feature no longer applies. So if you only want to make an exception to one rule rather than all the rules, you have to write it that way. So instead of removing properties, the better way is just to say "These gloves allow you to use weapons with the two-handed property in one hand without penalty."

Second, this item as currently written wouldn't affect longswords because those aren't two-handed, they're versatile. You could maybe interpret this to say a versatile weapon gets it's larger damage die while wearing this item, but again, this is something you should explicitly state in the item's description. Even if longswords WERE two-handed, you STILL couldn't use them with this item as written, because the PHB specifically says you can only dual wield with light weapons. You'd also need the Dual Wielder feat in addition to this item to dual wield two longswords (or two great axes, or two lances, etc.) Spanambula (talk) 19:36, 22 May 2016 (UTC)