Malchus (Messer Broadsword Supplement)

Design Note: This weapon was designed with the Messer Broadsword variant rule.

Malchus

Martial One-Handed Melee Critical: 20x2 Range Increment: — Type: — Hardness: —
Size	Cost1	Damage	Weight1	hp
Fine	*		*	—
Diminutive	*		*	—
Tiny	*		*	—
Small				—
Medium		2d4	4 lbs.
Large				—
Huge	*		*	—
Gargantuan	*		*	—
Colossal	*		*	—
The SRD only gives a means to determine costs and weights of weapons for Large and Small versions based on the Medium weapons. Any other supplied values are the author's best determination.

It is a War one-handed Messer, which is a cleaver form of Langes Messer (litteraly “long knife”). This is the martial version of the poor man’s simple Messer, that one presented by Locke. The Malchus is basically a one-handed medieval falchion-type sword, with a wide and thick blade.

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