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Basically, I have a player who wants to play a magus. He found a character seeming to wield 2 Elven Curve Blades, and he spent the past 4 or so hours working on photoshop with it. He took the second blade off, and put a spell in its place.
My basic question, it it seems he can take the (S) version of the weapon, and it would become a 1 handed weapon, down from 2 handed. Would he also have to take the -2 for using an item not sized for him, technically, or would he be ok?
Would you think it would be ok to just let him do it, or would that be potentially too much? Its basically an exotic longsword, with an admittedly higher crit range. Also from a balance perspective, I'm dissalowing the Magus's spellstrike ability to use a spell that has been altered by a metamagic feat. I just don't really want that in my game. I also think I'll disallow keen or improved crit to increase the overal crit range of the spell. It'll only effect the weapon itself.
Thoughts, and overall opinion plz?
I'd rule that since the elven curve blade is an elven made weapon, there are no small versions since there are no small elves.
That said, certainly seems legit, though inefficient considering the -2 and exotic prof. for only one more point of crit range.
Basically, I have a player who wants to play a magus. He found a character seeming to wield 2 Elven Curve Blades, and he spent the past 4 or so hours working on photoshop with it. He took the second blade off, and put a spell in its place.
My basic question, it it seems he can take the (S) version of the weapon, and it would become a 1 handed weapon, down from 2 handed. Would he also have to take the -2 for using an item not sized for him, technically, or would he be ok?
Would you think it would be ok to just let him do it, or would that be potentially too much? Its basically an exotic longsword, with an admittedly higher crit range. Also from a balance perspective, I'm dissalowing the Magus's spellstrike ability to use a spell that has been altered by a metamagic feat. I just don't really want that in my game. I also think I'll disallow keen or improved crit to increase the overal crit range of the spell. It'll only effect the weapon itself.
Thoughts, and overall opinion plz?
RAW he has to cope with the -2 to attack due to size... Now, as a GM I will not give him the -2 since, basically, he take a feat to have a rapier that deals 1d8 dmg instead of 1D6... Why not ? It's not like this will broke the game ;)
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By RAW, he also wouldn't be able to Finesse it, because you can only Finesse an elven curve blade sized for you, and it would only be a one-handed weapon, not a light weapon.
Take away the Finesse though and it's mechanically identical to an urumi except for the wrong-size penalty. If you're not overly concerned with rigid "balance," I can't see a problem with just letting him have the urumi proficiency instead of the elven curve blade for your game.
He could just play a Half-Elf for the Free Weapon Prof: Umri
Use a scimitar, fluff it out as an elven blade.
That's what I did. I don't need weapon finesse just the fluff. The classic Scimitar look just didn't feel right so I just describe it differently as Eleven version of the Scimitar.
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