Talk:Rhomphaia (3.5e Equipment)
Hi! I like very much your "Romphaia", since it solves the lack of a martial two-handed melee weapon with 2d8 attack and 20x2 critical in 3.5 D&D. Yhe romphaia corrisponds mechanically two a particular weapon used in Germany durinfg the Reinassance, wich was like a two-handed warknife that I've called "Knochenbrecher (see the voice below). 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", after my last revisions and updated informations:
1)"Haumesser"(literally “hew knife”, it is also called 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"(literally “long knife”, it’s a one-handed war Messer, it's the martial version of the poor man’s simple Messer, that one presented by Locke; the Langes Messer is basically a one-handed medieval falchion-type sword, with a wide and thick blade; martial one-handed melee weapon): weight 4 lbs, damage 2d4, critical 20x2.
4)"Grosses Messer"(literally “big knife”, it's a hand-and-a-half Kriegsmesser or Bastard Messer; exotic one-handed melee weapon, with -2 penalty if used in one hand with Exotic Weapon Proficiency; it means 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 two-handed Kriegsmesser or Greatmesser; martial two handed melee 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!
