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gjallahorn
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A Bastard sword, A Bastard sword, my kingdom for a Bastard sword

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My main(Fenia) uses a bastard sword, as a twohanded weapon.
(I cannot bring myself to dual wield blades of that size, since I quite frankly find it looks silly :hand: )

However!

I find there are very, very few vendors that have bastardswords worth buying, or simply have no bastardswords at all.
Most often, especially when visiting Doron Amar, I find myself looking at both longswords and greatswords which are NICE! and then thinking to myself...if only there was a bastardsword variant :cry:

So far I have not been able to find any vendor selling anything other than a +3 encharntment and nothing more (+3 is my current used weapon)

1. Am I looking the wrong place?
2. Could it be considered, perhaps adding a few bastard-variants of popular longswords and or greatswords?

3. Or lastly... if I fork out the 400.000gp for a greatsword. how much more should I pay for the smith to simply make a bastard variant of that same blade?
(Here I assume that said smith actually made the weapons she sells, and therefore could reasonably be expected to be able to make a bastard variant for Fenia)
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Re: A Bastard sword, A Bastard sword, my kingdom for a Bastard sword

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Re: A Bastard sword, A Bastard sword, my kingdom for a Bastard sword

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gjallahorn wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2020 2:55 pm My main(Fenia) uses a bastard sword, as a twohanded weapon.
(I cannot bring myself to dual wield blades of that size, since I quite frankly find it looks silly :hand: )

However!

I find there are very, very few vendors that have bastardswords worth buying, or simply have no bastardswords at all.
Most often, especially when visiting Doron Amar, I find myself looking at both longswords and greatswords which are NICE! and then thinking to myself...if only there was a bastardsword variant :cry:

So far I have not been able to find any vendor selling anything other than a +3 encharntment and nothing more (+3 is my current used weapon)

1. Am I looking the wrong place?
2. Could it be considered, perhaps adding a few bastard-variants of popular longswords and or greatswords?

3. Or lastly... if I fork out the 400.000gp for a greatsword. how much more should I pay for the smith to simply make a bastard variant of that same blade?
(Here I assume that said smith actually made the weapons she sells, and therefore could reasonably be expected to be able to make a bastard variant for Fenia)
In my opinion, all weapons need to come have similar variations or there should be an NPC enchanter/forger that allows you customize a weapon so long as you have the money to do it. I agree there are low variations of certain weapons, but a lot of variation on cookie cutter weapons like staffs, greatswords, daggers, and longswords.
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Re: A Bastard sword, A Bastard sword, my kingdom for a Bastard sword

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I think the intention was that to give more flavour viability for no best crit weapons. That being said, there should be more options for bastard sword. You need a exotic prof feat for it and is only average 1 damage higher
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