Silent Saturn
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That table seems to have a lot of contradictions.
Greataxes (1d12) and greatswords (2d6) both reduce to 1d10 when going from medium to small. So what does a Medium 1d10 weapon do in large form? It does 2d8. The 2d4 Falchion enlarges to 2d6, and so does the 1d8 longsword. But a 2d6 greatsword doesn't reduce to 2d4 or 1d8, but 1d10.
There's no internal consistency! You can't look at a specific set of damage dice and figure out what they'd do if enlarged or reduced-- you can only go by "what that weapon does when it's Medium".
I guess for most situation that's good enough, but it falls apart if you look at it too closely.
| Lab_Rat |
And yet...so same inconsistencies are in Pathfinder rules also.
Take a look at the greatsword for medium (2d6) vs small (1d10). Now look at the tiny and large weapon table HERE and you notice that a medium 1d10 weapon goes to 2d8 when large.
The same exact inconsistency. You just noticed it because its in a nice table on the d20srd but is split up and harder to notice in pathfinder.