This sword is the size of a bastard sword However, a sun blade is wielded as if it were a short sword with respect to weight and ease of use In other words, the weapon appears to all viewers to be a bastard sword, and deals bastard sword damage, but the wielder feels and reacts as if the weapon were a short swordName Cost Hands Damage Weight Properties;As far as the bastard sword goes, 5e is actually pretty on point Historically, a bastard sword is the same as a handandahalf sword, which is what the D&D longsword is meant to model (rather than a rapier, which is how "longsword" seems to have been used in the Elizabethan era when such "Sword Names" were popular)
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