Warchon
2019-01-20, 08:49 AM
The Flame Blade spell description explicitly calls the resulting weapon a three foot blade. Any reasonable person would assume that by RAI that should just be 'a longsword' and a Giant or a Grig would get weapons appropriate to their size. Obviously, I wouldn't be posting here if I thought I was playing with reasonable people, and we're going with the (much more entertaining) RAW description.
Would any of you deny a Large or larger creature their natural reach for using a Flame Blade? Or allow a Tiny or smaller creature to attack from adjacent squares with it? Since the spell says you are considered proficient, and since the weapon doesn't weigh anything, I don't think imposing any other penalties/benefits is called for.
An argument could also be made that Large/larger creatures would only lose five feet -of- their natural reach, rather than giving up all of it.
On a related note, does anyone here have any experience with rescaling maps so that the squares represent increments other than five feet? In a full party of Tiny fey (and one Reduce Person'd halfling who thinks it's quite funny) it seems like it might make the combat flow a little more intuitively, and perhaps more importantly, impose a more powerful sense of scale by having that ordinary elf wizard tower over them from a four square inch base, but I'm not sure what pitfalls there might be in trying to adapt the mechanics in that fashion.
Would any of you deny a Large or larger creature their natural reach for using a Flame Blade? Or allow a Tiny or smaller creature to attack from adjacent squares with it? Since the spell says you are considered proficient, and since the weapon doesn't weigh anything, I don't think imposing any other penalties/benefits is called for.
An argument could also be made that Large/larger creatures would only lose five feet -of- their natural reach, rather than giving up all of it.
On a related note, does anyone here have any experience with rescaling maps so that the squares represent increments other than five feet? In a full party of Tiny fey (and one Reduce Person'd halfling who thinks it's quite funny) it seems like it might make the combat flow a little more intuitively, and perhaps more importantly, impose a more powerful sense of scale by having that ordinary elf wizard tower over them from a four square inch base, but I'm not sure what pitfalls there might be in trying to adapt the mechanics in that fashion.