Broadswords family ("messers") (3.5e Equipment)

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Broadswords family ("messers")
Melee
Critical: x2
Range Increment:
Type: Slashing
Hardness:
Size Cost1 Damage Weight1 hp
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Diminutive * *
Tiny * *
Small
Medium
Large
Huge * *
Gargantuan * *
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  1. The SRD only gives a means to determine costs and weights of weapons for Large and Small versions based on the Medium weapons. Any other supplied values are the author's best determination.

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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