Talk:Ikakalaka (5e Equipment)

There's no guideline preventing mundane weapons to have extra critical damage. The idea is that the Ikakalaka is made for executions, so it made sense for the weapon to have a extra mean crit.

The damage output is also not outside the borders of other simple weapons, at least from what i see. Anastacio (talk) 19:53, 18 November 2020 (MST)

Fair enough

Someone404 (talk) 20:02, 18 November 2020 (MST)

Flavor seems like the executioner type. It's also a rather low chance occurrence of extra damage that benefits crit fishers more than anything else, and very marginally at that. With bounded accuracy, it also doesn't have the best chances of happening often.--Yanied (talk) 20:27, 18 November 2020 (MST)

Why is this a simple weapon this could easily count as a martial weapon.

Because this is a Strength based weapon that causes 1d6 damage. Being Strength based, it forces creatures to spread its resources thin to balance attack and defense, different from what you could do with Dexterity. Also, being not a light weapon, it don't allow versatility of uses, like a handaxe would with the light property, nor it can be thrown or wield in two hands for higher damage. So, the circumstantial damage increase in critical hits is not enough to justify this being a martial weapon, in my opinion at least. Anastacio (talk) 20:18, 19 July 2021 (MDT)