Broadswords family ("messers") (3.5e Equipment)
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So friends, that is m point: personally I am 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 is 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 is a short Messer; simple light melee weapon): weight 2 lbs, damage 2d3, critical 20x2.
3)"Malchus" (it is a War one-handed Messer, which is a cleaver form of Langes Messer (litteraly “long knife”); this is the martial version of the poor man’s simple Messer, that one presented by Locke; the Malchus 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 is a War 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 is a War two-handed Kriegsmesser or Greatmesser; martial two handed melee weapon): weight 8 lbs, damage 2d8, critical 20x2.
Within the range of middle dimensions, 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 like!!!
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