Titan Mauler Weapons

[DNDfan4life]

a Titan mauler barbarian can equip a gargantuan greatsword. does this effectively give him reach and can he carry it through a 5 foot door??

[Blakmane]

a) no, this does not give him reach.

b) DM purview but yes, he should be fine carrying it through. It technically doesn't take up and more space than your square already.

[Illeist]

Actually, a Titan Mauler can't even use a large greatsword. In addition to the attack penalty, increasing a weapon's size also increases its "handedness." So weapons progress from light->one-handed->two-handed, and two-handed weapons sized for larger creatures are unusable.

CRB wrote:

The measure of how much effort it takes to use a weapon (whether the weapon is designated as a light, one-handed, or two-handed weapon for a particular wielder) is altered by one step for each size category of difference between the wielder's size and the size of the creature for which the weapon was designed. For example, a Small creature would wield a Medium one-handed weapon as a two-handed weapon. If a weapon's designation would be changed to something other than light, one-handed, or two-handed by this alteration, the creature can't wield the weapon at all.

[Claxon]

Yeah, unfortunately Titan Mauler doesn't work the way you think it does.

Primarily, while it lowers the penalty to equip weapons of incorrect size, it never actually gives you a special ability to override the rule that says if a weapon would become something other than light, one-handed, or two-handed you can't wield it. So you can't wield a two-handed weapon that is a size category larger than you.

That being said, if your GM does allow it, no it doesn't grant you reach and it doesn't take up any extra room so you can walk with it anywhere fine.

[DNDfan4life]

so that would mean that a Titan mauler could effectively equipped a huge dagger but at 18th level a huge dagger will only be two sizes so it would only be a minus four penalty but he decreases the penalty by 6 which would be a gargantuan but a gargantuan dagger would increase the size of a dagger (a light weapon) beyond two handed weapon size?

[Nefreet]

Basically, the Titan Mauler's abilities lower the numerical penalty for wielding inappropriately sized weapons, but doesn't allow for the ability to wield weapons normally unwieldable.

[SiuoL]

I think it's only worth being titan mauler is you plan to use a huge Aklys or a large Bastard sword because if you are going to use other weapon, you might as well use a medium earth breaker or a medium greatsword instead.

[Dread Knight]

While you won't be able to use a Gargantuan weapon(unless you're already Huge) if you want to use over-sized 2H weapons you'd want Titan Fighter instead of Titan Mauler.

[Physically Unfeasible]

SiuoL wrote:

I think it's only worth being titan mauler is you plan to use a huge Aklys or a large Bastard sword because if you are going to use other weapon, you might as well use a medium earth breaker or a medium greatsword instead.

Not necessarily - I mean, if grabbing exotic proficiency (though can be bought for a mere 1500GP for a Barb or Fighter (cf. This). I'd personally point to a Falcata or Estoc. Sure, the dice is the same as a greatsword (as opposed to better) but later, when the static bonus is better, that better crit is just wonderful to have.

Though, if raw dice is the attraction (Vital Strike isn't bad), and you're really sinking into titan mauler, the Aklys is better for that 3d6 damage when huge.