Hey, I am just toying around with some silly ideas that probably won't work out in any practical play, but I just wanted to make sure I was adding this up right, or if anyone knew any alternatives that could make this work better.
Lighten Weapon lets you reduce a weapon's size for use by one grip, like a Large two-handed weapon would become usable by a medium creature again, but at a -2 to hit penalty. That -2 to hit stacks with the fact that large weapons weren't made for medium creatures right? For a total of -4.
There is an Improved Lighten Weapon, which removes Lighten Weapon's -2, which still sits you at -2 in the end.
My question is, if you surpass Large and go Straight to Huge, you'd be going up two sizes so you'd have to use an originally one-handed weapon, now a Huge one-handed weapon you can only use with two hands with the help of Lighten Weapon. But because its huge and two-sizes out of your size category, its -4 to hit at best with Improved.
So a 1d8 one-handed weapon would become 3d6 at Huge size, but it still has -4 to hit, which is not very good or practical. There's no other way to reduce the negative to hit to make it somewhat more practical is there?
Might be worth noting where Lighten Weapon comes from, it's up on PFSRD, but on first glance I had no idea what you were talking about till I looked it up.
Leveling up is the only thing that comes to mind. Where did you get a Huge weapon?
No where at the moment, I was just thinking about this. In-game if I did do this I'd probably have it forged extra special at higher cost by a blacksmith or something.
And yeah Robert, Lighten Weapon is from the Alchemist book.