SIlver Sword

DrowishFighter · Post by **DrowishFighter** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:22 pm

Ok I haven't actualy got the game yet but, I already have my first character planned out. I'm going to make him a weapon master eventualy that specializes in Bastards swords. But ofcourse I wanted to make the most of the silver sword so I chacked to see what it was so I could specialize in that, but it says Universal sword. Can someone tell me what that means?

zamiel · Post by **zamiel** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:01 am

It means that every character can use it, no matter of class or race, and thus noone can have weapon focus/specialization for it.

DrowishFighter · Post by **DrowishFighter** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:23 am

That sucks, couldn't they just throw the weapon proficency feat on it. But I geuss if that's the case I'll just go pure fighter or maybe a different prestige class.

shift244 · Post by **shift244** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:32 am

The sword is not really great (to me). A couple of bonuses, better fitted to round of on average than a damage dealing weapon. If you're going all out melee style, chances are, you already have a much preferred sword already... even it was a sword you can use your weapon focused feats on.

Cyrinn · Post by **Cyrinn** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:11 pm

Yeah, you can't plan a build around that weapon for reasons already pointed out. It will decrease your AB for most characters and the extra damage doesn't make up for that IMO.

I suppose a pure wizard with just the basic weapon proficiencies could actually inflict a little melee damage with it....

I didn't even use it in my games, except for the special abilities a couple of times.