Oversized weapons outside of Barbarian?


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Is there a way to wield (ideally dual-wield) oversized weapons outside of Barbarian? I'm talkin' anything that is mechanically an unusually large weapon to be able to heft one-handed, like Greatswords or giant-sized longswords or what-have-you.

I was just fondly reminiscing about an old neverwinter nights tiefling character of mine who used two greatswords, accuracy be danged, with monkey grip. It was aesthetically satisfying.


Don't think so, but also the only combat (postive and negative) rules for doing so are in giant barbarian so if you want to try to convince your table that you want to spend more money and use more bulk to use large weapons it's not going to be a balance issue.

Liberty's Edge

"In most cases, Small or Medium creatures can wield a Large weapon, though it’s unwieldy, giving them the clumsy 1 condition, and the larger size is canceled by the difficulty of swinging the weapon, so it grants no special benefit"

So, just wield 2 Large Bastard Swords and accept the Clumsy 1 penalty. You can even do this as a Halfling.

Or a Gnome dual-wielding Large Flickmaces.

What the Giant Barbarian actually gets is additional damage when using such oversized weapons.


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D'oh, I guess I forgot that there was a general rule for it! This works great, thanks!

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