I had a Pladin PC with it and Heavy Weapon Mastery who asked me if hed ever get a magical glaive.

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Players are making magic item wishlists (by rarity) to be included in future treasure troves.

So far, so good. 3 item attunement is making this very interesting.

Now one player has a character with Polearm Mastery (PAM) and its noted there are very few magic polearms in the DMG; Rod of Lordly Might, 1 to 3, Weapon of warning, Trident of fish command and Vicious weapon.

Any idea the reasons there are no Vorpal glaives or Frost Brand spears.

Now, polearms are better feat supported than swords, so giving swords some benefit makes sense.

Swords contained more metal, were more expensive to make and thus only the wealthy could afford them.

While the spear may have been the most popular offensive armament of the Middle Ages, the sword was certainly the most celebrated.

Swords were intricately made, expensive to own, and generally passed down from generation to generation.

They were also frequently named, with King Arthurs Excalibur and Rolands Durendal being perhaps the most famous.

Medieval Military Technology (1992) Kelly DeVries.

Polearm are mob soldiers weapon, use mainly in open battlefield warfare.

We will have image of Percival, Sinbad, Drizzt wielding polearm rather than sword and scimitar.

The vorpal sword is lifted directly from the poem Jabberwocky though, and the vorpal bardiche went snicker-snack doesnt scan.

The other reason is polearms outside of spears and pikes were mostly medieval weapons.

So ancient and classical era heroes of myth didnt have them to inspire the DD weapons.

Theres no need for multiple versions with different weapon chassis.

A major downside of Polearm Mastery is the lack of magical polearms.

Personally, I would only take the feat if I already had such a weapon.

Even when they had swords, it was typically a secondary weapon while the spear was a primary weapon.

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