Martial Weapons: Difference between revisions

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Martial Weapons are weapons that require extensive trainings to effectively use in combat.

When attacking with a Martial Weapon without proficiency:

You can not add your Proficiency Bonus (Strength for Melee Weapons, Dexterity for Ranged Weapons) to your Attack rolls. Resulting in lower chances to successfully hit enemies.
- For example:
  - When a 16 Strength character that has no Proficiency with Martial Weapons makes an attack to an enemy with a Greatsword, their Attack Roll would be: 1d8 + 3 (Strength Modifier).
  - When a 16 Strength character that has Proficiency with Martial Weapons makes an attack to an enemy with a Greatsword, their Attack Roll would be: 1d8 + 2 (Proficiency Bonus) + 3 (Strength Modifier)

Only martial classes such as Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, have proficiency with all martial weapons at level 1.

Bards are proficient with hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords.
Druids are proficient with scimitars.
Monks are proficient with shortswords.
Rogues are proficient with hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords.
- Clerics, Sorcerers, Warlocks, Wizards have no proficiency with martial weapons

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 When attacking with a Martial Weapon without proficiency:
-* You can not add your [[Proficiency Bonus]] (Strength for Melee Weapons, Dexterity for Ranged Weapons)
-* You suffer a -4 penalty to your [[Attack]] rolls.
+* You can not add your [[Proficiency Bonus]] (Strength for Melee Weapons, Dexterity for Ranged Weapons) to your [[Attack]] rolls. Resulting in lower chances to successfully hit enemies.
+** For example:
+*** When a 16 [[Strength]] character that has ''no'' Proficiency with [[Martial Weapons]] makes an attack to an enemy with a [[Greatsword]], their Attack Roll would be: ''1d8 + 3 (Strength Modifier)''.
+*** When a 16 [[Strength]] character that ''has'' Proficiency with [[Martial Weapons]] makes an attack to an enemy with a [[Greatsword]], their Attack Roll would be: ''1d8 + 2 ([[Proficiency Bonus]]) + 3 (Strength Modifier)''
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 Only martial classes such as [[Barbarian]], [[Fighter]], [[Paladin]], [[Ranger]], have proficiency with ''all'' martial weapons at level 1.