Messer Broadsword (3.5e Variant Rule)

Messer Broadsword

Introduction

I have been a scholar of old Messer typologies, and a D&D aficionado ever since Locke introduced a Messer (simple two-handed melee weapon), and a Kriegsmesser (exotic two-handed melee weapon). The other members of the "Messer family", identified as a family of wide-and-heavy-bladed, single-edged swords that could be called "messers". All with a straight or slightly curved blade suited for terrible, slicing attacks and brutal chopping. That is the new "family".

Rules

Within the range of middle dimensions, this family of swords is characterized by a powerful double-dice damage (increasing proportionally from 2d2 to 2d8) and by a low critical (always 20x2). Since the lack of a group of brutally functional, heavy-and-wide-bladed backswords in 3.5 edition D&D, this group of 5 weapons fills that niche, introducing a new category of swords that can be called "wide-bladed backswords", "heavy backswords" "bladeswords" or whatever you like!!!

Weapons

• Bauernwehr
• Grosses Messer
• Haumesser
• Knochenbrecher
• Malchus

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