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I am a little confused by executioners sword which seems to be better than greatsword while also being Lighter!

An executioner's sword weighs 4 pounds while a great sword weighs 6 lbs. The executioner's sword does 1-12 points of slashing damage while a greatsword does 2-12 (average of 7) points of damage. Both are substantial, specialized weapons that will attract attention.

So executioners sword is lighter than greatsword and doesn't do 1-12 damage it has higher average by far as you roll 2 d12 and take highest giving mUchida better results than 2 d6 gives

Help me understand. The executioner's sword is listed as 1d12 damage, which while a greater range of damage, is a lower average value. I'm not sure why you are rolling twice and taking the higher result, unless there is something I am not considering.

Formuła for average roll is [(<dice size> + 1)/2]*<noumber of dices>
for 1d12 this is 6,5
for 2d6 this is 7
With is negligible difference, what make this weapons different is 2d6 more often make results concentrated around 7, for 1d12 every single possible damage happens equally often.
execiutoner is hight-risk, high-reward thing, great sword is more average. Not counting "Massive" witch change a lot.

Great Weapon Fighting will benefit more Great sword than Execiutoner.

Oh! That's a big factor that I had somehow missed.... massive does mean that the executioner's sword does do extra damage. It is designed to do extra damage, with an extra wide blade.

So what I decided to do was rather than ignore massive quality is redesign it so now works like this
Roll 2 d12 pick highest
But using such large weapon leaves you open to attack so minus 2 to armour class reflecting this weapons unwieldy nature