Originally Posted by Kavonde
Originally Posted by MarcHicks
Originally Posted by Warlocke
In reality what old school D&D called a long sword would be called broad sword, arming sword, or just a sword. These are not in D&D.

They got rid of bastard sword, since a bastard sword is a longsword, and long swords can now be wielded as a two handed weapon or as a one handed weapon as the player wishes.


Yep, I get it now. As I said, the danger of being away from the franchise for so very long. So maybe they'll have broadswords in the game? If so I haven't seen any. Then again, I've not seen a longbow yet either wink.


Longbows, yes. They'll start dropping eventually. Broadswords sadly aren't a thing in 5E; basically every type of sword has been condensed into shortsword, longsword, greatsword, rapier, or scimitar.


Sad to hear. Even if it breaks with 5e canon, I wouldn't mind if Larian got a bit creative with the varieties of weapons in the game smile.