how does melee weapon design influence bonuses and penalties

>>48865721
How do shoe and boot design affect yours?

>>48865721
Purpose-based only. If a player can coherently explain and demonstrate the special capabilities of the weapon in question, he or she might get special attacks or bonuses.

I calculate how many beads of sweat are on each square inch of my character's skin so i get the most realistic number's.

Oh wait this shit barely matters

>>48865787
>not wanting a bonus to decrease shield-based AC by using a mambele
>not punching people in the face with a crossguard

>>48865738
>sandals
no penalty to movement speed, low traction and protection
>closed shoes
improved protection
>boots
higher protection , little penalty to movement speed, better traction (no DEX penalty on soft/unsafe ground)

now you

>>48865914
Exotic weapon, bonus Included in weapon mastery trait.

>>48865721
The character takes strike as a power, then describes it however they like.

>>48865738
My first attempt at Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup incidentally ended when I accidentally armed myself with a pair of boots, and got subsequently got gob smacked by a gobbo.

>>48865914
Have you ever tried running in sandles? Their should definitely be a penalty to movement speed, much more so than boots.

>>48865914
These are pretty awful, if anything sandals should lower movement speed, closed shoes should increase movement speed (since you can run freely without having to worry about stepping on shit), and boots should in some way be geared towards long distance travel. Boots are really the only one you got right, although I don't think they'd have any movement penalty.

>>48867393
>Xom is amused!

>>48865721
strike, thrust, draw cut, defense, and hand protection all have their own stats on a per-weapon basis in tRoS, so a Pattah would have significantly different performance than a Saber, which would have different performance than a Messer, even though they're all curved one-handed blades of similar size (which isn't so say that there aren't size variations among pattahs, sabers, and messers).