My character is a 7 foot tall orc titan mauler with 22 strength and jotungrip that wields a large greatsword. How can I make HeroLab™ equip this weapon? Jotungrip allows me to use a 2 handed weapon of appropriate size in one hand wouldn't this allow allow me to use a larger weapon of the same type in two hands? Our DM says yes. I have used the adjustments, but this alters it to a regular medium greatsword (2d6 vs 3d6)
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Gear/Weapon Help
- Thread starter Golgath
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This entry from the Ultimate Combat FAQ explains why this isn't legal: http://paizo.com/products/btpy8mcz/faq?Pathfinder-Roleplaying-Game-Ultimate-Combat#v5748eaic9qf6
Massive weapons reduces the attack penalty for attacking with inappropriately sized weapons, but doesn't affect the steps rule at all. So for example, Massive weapon +2 would eliminate the -2 penalty for 1 size difference if you picked up a Large longsword, but the longsword would still increase a step from 1-handed to 2-handed. For the same reason, any weapon which is already two handed for a large creature would increase 1 step to "not usable" when your medium creature tried to wield it.
a large long-sword is equivalent to a medium great-sword. I can wield a medium great-sword in one hand. A large great-sword would be a 1 step size difference from a medium great-sword, not 2, that would be a huge great-sword (small, medium, large, huge, gargantuan, colossal, etc.) Massive weapons reduces the penalty for using a weapon that is too large for my size by 1 for every 3 levels of barbarian. So I should be able to wield a large great-sword at a -3 penalty until I reach 6th level when it would drop to -2. There is an inconsistency in this rules set.
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Golgath, the key phrase in that ability that's creating this restriction is "The weapon must be appropriately sized for her...". A size M character cannot wield a size L two-handed weapon, so that weapon is not "appropriately sized" for that character, and the jotungrip ability therefore doesn't affect that weapon.
A size M character can wield a size M two-handed weapon, so Jotungrip does apply to that - allowing you to wield it in one hand at the cost of a penalty to hit.
A size M character can wield a size M two-handed weapon, so Jotungrip does apply to that - allowing you to wield it in one hand at the cost of a penalty to hit.