Questions tagged [oversized-weapons]
For questions primarily about oversized weapons. In RPGs, oversized weapons are typically a version of a normal weapon that is larger than the typical version. Oversized weapons often do more damage than their normal-sized counterparts, but smaller creatures may suffer a penalty when attempting to use weapons sized for a larger attacker, or may be unable to use them at all. (See also: the [weapons] tag.)
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Can a barbarian dual wield with Giant Instinct?
The ability Giant instinct gives you access to an oversized weapon:
You gain access to this larger weapon, which can be of any weapon type otherwise available at character creation. It has the normal ...
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Do you get the benefits of Oversized Weapons with Path of Giant?
The description of the Path of the Giant barbarian's Elemental Cleaver feature (from Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants) says, in part:
Giant Stature: Your reach increases by 5 feet, and if you are ...
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How much does the Enlarge/Reduce spell increase weapon damage? [duplicate]
If we enlarge a character with the Enlarge/Reduce spell, he grows with the weapon
We have a rule for interacting with larger weapons on p.278 of the DMG. Which says that enlarged weapons have double ...
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How much damage do giants deal with unarmed strikes?
A lot of monsters have attack descriptions that include using their appendages to hit characters and those appendages generally can't be disarmed. However, giants are unique in that they almost always ...
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Can a mind smith's materialized weapon be of large size?
Would materializing a large-sized axe - for a giant instinct barbarian to use - be legal? For reference the mind smith dedication says that:
The overall shape and design of your mind weapon can be of ...
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Must a PC (or other creature) be Huge in size to deal the 3d12 damage dice upon a hit with a Huge-sized greataxe as per the oversized-weapon rules?
Must a PC (or other creature) be Huge in size to deal the 3d12 damage dice upon a hit with a Huge-sized greataxe as per the oversized-weapon rules?
I believe the oversized-weapon rules are somewhat ...
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How does the Enlarge/Reduce spell interact with the Oversized Weapons rule when you Enlarge a Medium size creature with a medium weapon to Large size?
The Enlarge option of the spell (PHB, p. 237) says about the weapon:
"The target's weapons also grow to match its new size. While these
weapons are enlarged, the target's attacks with them deal ...
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Wield a huge weapon as a medium creature
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I had an idea of a character who has two tower shields and an exceptionally large weapon. Originally I thought since they were from different sources that the Powerful Build racial ...
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Statistically, when is wielding a Large weapon worth it for a Medium-sized character?
In D&D 5e, according to p. 278 of the Dungeon Master's Guide, if a Medium-sized character uses a Large weapon, its damage dice are doubled, but it causes them to suffer disadvantage on their ...
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Does a Rune Knight fighter using the Giant's Might feature get a bonus to their weapon's damage?
The description of the Giant's Might feature for the Rune Knight fighter in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything (p. 45) says that their weapons and armor grow with them, meaning their sword would be large/...
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What are the rules for the size of weapons?
According to Items and Sizes Small and Medium creatures seem to be able to use Small and Medium weapons interchangeably without any penalty, and they can use Large weapons but they gain the Clumsy 1 ...
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How does Free-Hand work with Titan Mauler?
I am a small or medium Giant Instinct Barbarian with a large Free-Hand weapon, such as a large gauntlet. How does the Free-Hand trait work with the Titan Mauler ability?
The Titan Mauler ability ...
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Is the Wield Oversized Weapon epic feat as bad as it looks?
Wield Oversized Weapon [Epic] is on pg 153 of Complete Warrior. Compared to Monkey Grip on pg 103 (shown below WOW), it looks like all you get for 25 STR and 21 BAB is +2 to hit and the ability to use ...
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Is there a D&D 5e equivalent to the Monkey Grip feat from D&D 3.5e?
While I was DMing a D&D 3.5 adventure, one of my players played a character with the Monkey Grip feat (because he liked the manga Berserk, where the hero has a giant sword). And it turned out that ...
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Does Enlarge increase your normal reach?
If my character, a medium-sized creature, were to drink a potion of growth, would his reach with a weapon increase?
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How does the lance's special rule of being wielded in one hand work with a large lance?
If a lance is a 2-handed weapon but can be wielded with one hand while on horseback, does that mean you can wield a large lance with 1 hand? Or, does the rule of not being able to wield large 2-handed ...
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Using a large dwarven waraxe as a medium creature
This question is complicated and is asking about manipulating the rules as written (RAW).
RAW states that using a weapon that is not of your size category incurs a cumulative −2 attack penalty ...
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Is it against RAW to allow an Enlarged/Oversized net to restrain a Huge creature?
A net's rules specify that it has no effect on a Huge (or Gargantuan) creature (probably because the net would be too small to bother such a creature).
However, when targeted by the Enlarge effect of ...
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Monkey Grip Large Two Hander and Reach?
Doing a Guts (from Berserk) build with DM permission for one of our players (who got their cleric executed for smarting off to a Mage guild). Thematically, want this character's combat functionality ...
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Is it possible to wield inapproriately large ranged weapons with feats?
Is there any feat that allows wielding inappropriately large ranged weapons?
There are a few feats that allow one to wield inappropriately large weapons, but all of them are obviously intended for ...
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Do weapons looted from creatures that are larger than Medium in size retain their damage when wielded by Medium-sized PCs?
We know, thanks to the DMG (p. 278), that a creature has disadvantage with a weapon sized for a creature larger than itself - but the wording is less clear concerning the damage. Do weapons looted ...
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Are Goliaths able to wield large-sized weapons?
With the new Elemental Evil Player's Companion released awhile ago, Goliaths were added to 5e. I'm unfamiliar with 3.5 and previous editions, but I know that they were included and wielding large ...
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Can I use Oversized weapons this way?
I have a few questions about Oversized D&D 4e weapons:
I'm playing a bugbear. I use Oversized to use a weapon one size larger.
What does the damage of longbows (1d10) and greatbows (1d12) convert ...
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Brutal Weapon Property and the Bugbear's Oversized Weapons ability
So I was playing around in the D&D character builder and made a bugbear barbarian that used an execution axe. The Execution axe has a normal damage die of 1d12 but the bugbear racial ability bumps ...
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