[LT] Sheaths for melee weapons

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by safisher

Fact is, in a perfect world, I'd give the lighter swords not only a quality advantage, but likely the balanced option as well. But I would not in fact say those 3-3.5 lbs swords were not "swords." I'd make the heavier ones unbalanced, say a -1 to skill, and the really bad ones would get worse stats. Nevertheless, combined with the Matter of Inches and other stuff in MA, and the weapon options in LTC, we are doing okay.

See to me, the issue is more about the skills and styles used, if the heavier ones are unbalanced the wielder will use a second hand as needed, that's not broadsword skill.
At some point a cut-off is needed, and for me that 40" line works fine, it's the meter long length, the nose to hand length, you go past that length and you got yourself a hand-and-a-half sword and not a broadsword.

For full disclosure, I should point out that in the game I'm currently running I merged broadswords with shortswords in a Shortsword skill, and put the hand-and-a-half swords and bastards swords with the two-handed swords in a Longsword skill, with -3 defaults to each other.