Exotic Weapon Proficiency

[Aldren]

This feat appeared during code updates today, though it does not seem to have a coded affect on exotic weapon types.

Is it planned to move ahead and make this a requisite for wielding exotic weapons (i.e. spiked chains, bastard swords)?




About 99% of the fighters on FK are about to get real upset if they have no feat points remaining.

[Alitar]

Or if they have /one/ remaining that they've been saving for feat they haven't been able to find yet. O.O

[Nylo]

Agreed. I like the idea in general, but when not when I spent all my feat points on other things. If this is kept, would we be able to apply for feats to be reset, for those of us without spare feat points? I know there's at least a few fighters who've renamed their bastard swords, and if they couldn't even use them after...

[Selveem]

Yeah, and to make matters worse, some (including my) Fighters have all been specced out based on how FK set weapon types. If a bastard sword becomes an exotic weapon, would we have our feat points refunded to replace them properly?

[Mask]

If your favoured weapon is an exotic weapon and you don't have a feat point to learn the feat, please feel free to send in an application to that affect.

Thanks.

[Timaeus]

Could we get a list of what weapons exactly are going to now be considered Exotic Weapons in FK? And perhaps add it to the help file for Exotic Weapon Proficiency and some designation in each of the Weapon Category helpfiles that a particular weapon also requires the Exotic Weapon Profciency? It would help to know so that you can plan your character development some and help newer players understand what they need to do to use a particular weapon.

And if some weapons are now going to be exotic can the RMI be adjusted so that more of the weapons in that class that are not exotic be found? An example would be Nunchaku in the Chains weapon category, they are an exotic weapon in the source material I have viewed and to my knowledge I have never seen, seen on merchants, nor heard of anyone recieving an RMI Morning Star from the Chains weapon category. (That a morning star is not a chain weapon is another post all together)

Thanks.

[Mask]

The help file does contain the list of weapons, and RMI has been adjusted.

[Theolund]

Aye. Alot of weapons in each category and some categories altogether you just don't see popping out of the RMI like single edged blades, chains, and whips. I think those are the ones that anyone never sees. I think each of them also contain some exotic weapon types.

[Selveem]

If your favoured weapon is an exotic weapon and you don't have a feat point to learn the feat, please feel free to send in an application to that affect.

Just to be clear, this is only for people who have no more free feat points remaining, not anyone who has everything already planned out but spent feat points in the weapon type it used to be?

Szrenzil, for instance, I will have no free feat points to spare once all the feats he needs are actually put in the game because I've chosen focus and specializations in the categories his weapons used to be. This may also be true for Torand, but I don't recall exactly.

[Mask]

The skill required hasn't changed, ie for bastard swords, it is still double-edged weapons.

[Selveem]

The skill required hasn't changed, ie for bastard swords, it is still double-edged weapons.

Ah, I see. Thank you for the clarification.

[Duranamir]

Is there any consideration for those faiths where whips (which are now exotic weapons) are the favoured faith weapons, i.e. Loviatar and Lloth. Do such characters also get an extra feat point to use for this ?

Duranamir

[Mask]

No.

[Kaaurk]

Whips
=====
Whips are weapons used for lashing enemies. They can be used by
most classes. Whips include:

whip cat-o'-nine tails

Since whips are their own category of weapons can it be considered that to train whips you have automatically gotten the proficiency in it. It effects some characters due to supplicated items. If not maybe the sup item could be changed to something different.

[Brar]

I have another question, regarding racial weapon.
For example, will warrior dwarves receive exotic weapon profiency "dwarven battle axe" for free as in DnD ?

[Mask]

I have another question, regarding racial weapon.
For example, will warrior dwarves receive exotic weapon profiency "dwarven battle axe" for free as in DnD ?

No, they just won't need it in the first place. And it's called 'dwarven war axe'.

[Casamir]

Would it be possible for new characters when joining a cleric guild to add the pre-designated exotic weapon feat for what they would previously be considered proficient with? Just like how armor feats changes as you follow certain gods. Thereby conserving the clerics already limited feat points. If new priests for example joined Kelemvor and they would say gain the bastard sword exotic feat automatically?

[Harroghty]

I would recommend against that. The 2E resource Faiths and Avatars (p. 86) says, for example, that specialty priests of Kelemvor may use "no swords" (even though this is the god's personally preferred weapon in that edition). Speaking more generally about all clerics: the 3E resource Defenders of the Faith says that clerics' weapon choices are "fairly limited -simple weapons only- unless you spend a feat to learn a martial or exotic weapon" (p. 7).

[Alitar]

I'm fairly certain that the Forgotten Realms Campaign setting lays out favoured weapons and states that clerics and paladins get proficiency in the weapon that corresponds with their deity. I could be mistaken though, it's been a long time since I've read it.

[Harroghty]

The divine champion prestige class is one way to obtain a bonus like that (see pages 42-43 of the 3E FRCS), but that is only that prestige class and not all clerics. (I believe; I am not infallible.) This prestige class is suited to "barbarians, fighters, monks, paladins, and rangers" but also "some of the more militant clerics and druids". We typically do not use prestige classes here though and any titles are just that, titles; they come with no inherent coded benefits.