The High Concept: Six new types of swords, based on weapons from the real world (and using their common real-world names, making it easy to find pictures of them with an Internet search), to expand a campaign's options for unusual characters or distant cultures.
The following swords are included:
- Cinquedea: Light martial melee weapon
- Executioner's Sword: Two-handed martial melee weapon
- Estoc: One-handed exotic melee weapon
- Kampilan: One-handed exotic melee weapon
- Manople: One-handed exotic melee weapon
- Swordstaff: Two-handed exotic melee weapon
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I'm buyin it, I love your company.
Edit: The swordstaff made it all worth it
I'm buyin it, I love your company.
Edit: The swordstaff made it all worth it
Awesome! Thanks Ibrahm!
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#1 With a Bullet Point: 6 New Exotic and Martial Swords presents six new types of swords, based on weapons from the real world (and using their common real-world names, making it easy to find pictures of them with an Internet search).
(And before anyone freaks out about the Estoc being an exotic weapon, remember that bastard swords are classified as exotic weapons. Same logic applies here.)
The following swords are included:
Cinquedea: Light martial melee weapon
Executioner's Sword: Two-handed martial melee weapon
Estoc: One-handed exotic melee weapon
Kampilan: One-handed exotic melee weapon
Manople: One-handed exotic melee weapon
Swordstaff: Two-handed exotic melee weapon
I love swordstaffs. They're one of my favorite weapons conceptually, and the stats on it made it worth it.
Is there *actually* a real-world weapon called a swordstaff? It seems to Forgotten Realms, somehow.
What did it look like?
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Yep, as GeraintElberion linked, it's a real weapon (if one with a much more limited window of use than swords or corssobows and such).
Swordstaff is a fairly prosaic name, and I almost went with höggspjót or svardstav for exactly that reason. But images like this were more common under the swordstaff name, so that's what I used.
Just bought this one, and I love it. And you know by now my biggest gripes about SGG products are usually the artwork. I really like this product's artwork on page one....even if it is a Furry.. LOL
Got the booklet, like it... but the estoc kinda throws me off a bit...
- why 1d4+1d6 points of damage instead of 1d10 ?
- do I understand it right that unless you have exotic proficiency, you treat the estoc as a lance in term of how you handle it ?
Also, the manople deals 1.5 times your strength modifier only if used as a primary weapon, as another manople, used as secondary/off-hand, would use the standard 0.5 times your strength modifier. Here's the catch: what if I have the Double Slice feat ? Does an off-hand manople in this case would deal your strength modifier as the feat would suggest, or 1.5 times your strength modifier since the feat can also means that you add the same modifier as the primary hand, meaning that both would add 1.5 times your strength modifier to damage ?
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Got the booklet, like it... but the estoc kinda throws me off a bit...
- why 1d4+1d6 points of damage instead of 1d10 ?
Averages, minimums, and probability curves. The average of 1d10 is 5.5, and you have a 10% chance of getting any damage result from 1 to 10. The average of 1d4 + 1d6 is 6, and your results are more likely to fall towards the middle. In this regard 1d4 + 1d6 is closer to the 2d4 of S damage than 1d10 is.
- do I understand it right that unless you have exotic proficiency, you treat the estoc as a lance in term of how you handle it ?
Yes, it matches a lance in terms of handedness.
Also, the manople deals 1.5 times your strength modifier only if used as a primary weapon, as another manople, used as secondary/off-hand, would use the standard 0.5 times your strength modifier. Here's the catch: what if I have the Double Slice feat ? Does an off-hand manople in this case would deal your strength modifier as the feat would suggest, or 1.5 times your strength modifier since the feat can also means that you add the same modifier as the primary hand, meaning that both would add 1.5 times your strength modifier to damage ?
No Double Slice still only does what Double Slice does, you'd get to add your full Str to off-hand manople attacks. A manople only has special damage rules when used in your primary hand, never in the secondary no matter what feats you have.
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I see (to everything you said)
Thanks for the clarification.
First of all, I love this BP. It was great seeing someone else remembering blades like the cinqueada and estoc. True, I wish we could've gotten stats for the yataghan and backsword, but what was done is magnificent.
And talking about the swordstaff, it reminded me of something I'd read about in The Border Reivers from Osprey, about a weapon they used that was basically a (short) sword blade mounted on a pole.