Magic Items under CBM

[Sombre]

Well pikes certainly didn't rise to dominance as an anti cavalry tactic. They were superb against infantry too, you only have to look at history.

This is a pretty major diversion from the point of the thread though. Pikes under cbm have decent att bonus and dmg, which actually does make them pretty good anti cav weapons, which is nice. I think the magic pike should be high att and high damage, really. I can't see what else could be done with it.

[chrispedersen]

Hmmm.

Interesting points all around. One thing perhaps I could contribute to the discussion - it would take fractionally more material, more magic to make a two hand weapon than one. Perhaps it makes more sense that the bigger effects culd be shifted to 2 handed weapons.

I realize its a bit unsettling, and that it would be a huge change.

But can the brands be made 2handed?

So a fire sword - one handed.. a fire brand.. two handed.
a dustdagger one handed.. a shadow brand two handed..

This would change the nature of thugs, and change the balance of the game a lot ..