| ZethKieten |
I've noticed that a lot of people are having to resort to bs tactics to get bonus from their racial weapon proficiencies, especially orcs and half-orcs. it's gotten to where they carry around a corpse of their own race to use as an improvised weapon (turned into a martial weapon because "orc" corpse).
i have been thinking about the balance of the weapons list, and think it might behoove to make an additional rule to add a race name to the front of a weapon in a similar manner to how one would pay extra for a masterwork weapon.
judging by the:
Axe, orc double-60gp
Curve Blade, Elven-80gp
Hammer, Gnome hooked-20gp
Ugrosh, Dwarven-50gp
Sling staff, Halfling-20gp
i'm thinking that a 30gp price could be added to make any old weapon a [race] weapon for the purpose of proficiency and qualification for feats (Orc Weapon Expertise comes to mind).
given the above data, i'm thinking that small weapons could have this modified by 50%, and large to maybe 150%, in consideration of how the Gnome and Halfling weapons seem to be the cheapest (i'm assuming the reasoning relates to the damage output of smaller weapons).