Oversized weapons in 5e?

Doom · January 31, 2016, 04:01:30 PM

I'm curious how others use Super-big weapons (like a 2d8 giant club) in 5e? I mean when normal-size player characters use them.

Treating them as improvised is close enough, but I'm not finding much in the rules/feats that addresses it? Anyone with better eyes or better ideas?

rawma · January 31, 2016, 05:55:35 PM

Weapons with the property "Heavy" impose disadvantage on Small creatures wielding them. Presumably that would scale up from halfling with a large polearm to human with a giant's weapon. I don't recall anything else.

I don't think improvised weapon is quite right; it is a weapon, just not a very usable size for the character in question. Unless they're wielding it in a different manner than a giant would use it (like using the club as a battering ram).

Omega · February 11, 2016, 06:43:52 PM

I agree. Scale up the "heavy" tag ("giant?") so it imposes disadvantage when used by medium sized creatures and is about impossible to wield by small.

Old One Eye · February 12, 2016, 12:15:51 AM

Nobody has tried it, oversized weapons generally considered silly in my circles. But if someone did ad hoc world one of desperation, probably give disadvantage and require both hands.

S'mon · February 12, 2016, 03:42:58 AM

I don't think I'd let a medium creature use it effectively, or at least require very high STR comparable to the original wielder. Disadvantage is too easy to negate, eg a Barbarian can just Reckless Attack. I guess a STR 20 Reckless Attacking barb with a STR 19 ogre greatclub for 2d8 dmg is not totally implausible; the 2 points of extra damage in return for grantin advtg vs attackers might be a fair trade.

Christopher Brady · February 12, 2016, 03:56:14 AM

I don't use them. Simply because my players never cared enough to try it.

RPGPundit · February 15, 2016, 01:19:13 AM

Quote from: rawma;876306Weapons with the property "Heavy" impose disadvantage on Small creatures wielding them. Presumably that would scale up from halfling with a large polearm to human with a giant's weapon. I don't recall anything else.

That would be the obvious answer.

Oversized weapons in 5e?

Doom

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Omega

Old One Eye

S'mon

Christopher Brady

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