Epic spellcasters are literally playing an entirely different game from those who are not. Realistically, since it’s an epic feat, its competition is instead Epic Spellcasting-and anything that isn’t Epic Spellcasting falls far, far short. In short, Wield Oversize Weapon is awful, and honestly comparing it against Monkey Grip, or other mundane epic feats, is being much too generous.

You can’t even claim that you’ve run out of better feats to take, because there are definitely stronger feats that you can take as many times as you like, so you’ll never be at a point where any of these feats is the right choice. D&D 3.5e has a bajillion feats, and a whole lot of them are much better than any of these feats. No one should ever take either feat, so the question “should I take Epic Weapon Focus, Monkey Grip, or Wield Oversize Weapon?” is meaningless-those aren’t your only options. The problem here is that Monkey Grip and Epic Weapon Focus are absolute garbage, and not reasonable points of comparison. So you can kind of imagine what the designers were thinking when they wrote it. As you note, Wield Oversize Weapon is an epic feat, so its weakness is particularly egregious when you consider what other epic characters might be doing, but then again, this situation maybe doesn’t look so awful when you consider other mundane epic feats-Epic Weapon Focus gives the same +2 to hit, but only for a specific weapon, and that’s all it does. bad-though of the two, taken in a vacuum, Wield Oversize Weapon is probably better, since attack bonus is worth more than damage bonus, and Wield Oversize Weapon’s bonus to attack may well exceed Monkey Grip’s bonus to damage. Monkey Grip and Wield Oversize Weapon both fall in this category and are entirely typical-i.e. Damage does grow super-linearly with size, which means each size increase is worth more the more you have, but you can’t get bigger than Colossal so you can’t even really go “all in” on the idea and push the value far enough that it’d be “good.” A size category adds, on average, +1 damage, which is nothing, and certainly isn’t worth a feat. Just about every option in the game for wielding a larger weapon is awful. A larger light weapon is considered a one-handed weapon, a larger one-handed weapon is considered a two-handed weapon, and you cannot use a larger two-handed weapon at all. You can use a melee weapon one size category larger than you are with a -2 penalty on the attack roll, and the amount of effort it takes to use the weapon increases. You cannot wield a larger weapon in your off hand, and you cannot use this feat with a double weapon. You can wield a larger light weapon as a light weapon, or a larger two-handed weapon in two hands. For a Medium creature that has this feat, it is still considered a one-handed weapon. For instance, a Large longsword (a one-handed weapon for a Large creature) is considered a two-handed weapon for a Medium creature that does not have this feat.

You can use melee weapons one size category larger than you are with a -2 penalty on the attack roll, but the amount of effort it takes you to use the weapon does not change. You may only wield weapons of your size without penalty.Ĭompare this with Monkey Grip: Prerequisite This feat subsumes the effects of the Monkey Grip feat. The weapon still deals its normal amount of damage. For instance, a halfling with this feat could wield a Medium short sword as a Small light weapon, or a human could wield an ogre's Large greatclub as a Medium twohanded weapon. You can treat any weapon as if it were one size category smaller than normal and one category 'lighter' for the purpose of determining the amount of effort it takes to wield. Monkey Grip, STR 25, Base attack bonus +21, Benefit

Is this for real, or am I missing something here? Prerequisite Compared to Monkey Grip on pg 103 (shown below WOW), it looks like all you get for 25 STR and 21 BAB is +2 to hit and the ability to use large double weapons or large weapons in offhand. Wield Oversized Weapon is on pg 153 of Complete Warrior.

Larger than light weapons