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** A ''Dungeons & Dragons'' variant, ''Iron Heroes'', allows you to select "Mighty Build" as one of your two Traits for a starting character. This allows you to wield weapons that are one size category larger than you, meaning that your character can wield his or her very own BFS (or whatever other weapon he or she specializes in).
** Another ''Dungeons & Dragons'' variant, ''[[Pathfinder]]'', has an iconic barbarian as an NPC called Amiri. She wields a giant-sized bastard sword which was taken off a dead frost giant. In something of a subversion, she has a bit of trouble wielding the thing normally because it's so big, and can only fully wield it when she is in the throes of her blood rage.
** Also in ''[[Pathfinder]]'', the butchering axe is a ridculously big (25 lbs!) and unwieldy axe, a creation by the strongest of orcs for the strongest of orcs. It requires a minimum of 19 Strength (or 17 for a small creature with a small version) and a proficiency feat to be used without penalty. However, it deals as much base damage as a greatsword one size category larger, then it becomes very interesting in some melee builds that require a weapon as damaging as possible.
* ''Spycraft 2.0'' has a sword weighing 30 lb that ostensibly represents a zweihänder, which in reality weighed less than a quarter of that—an actual sword this heavy would resemble [[Final Fantasy VII|Cloud's Buster Sword]] more than any real weapon and be completely impractical in any setting pretending to be at all realistic.
* A scene in the ''Great Pendragon Campaign'' has a BFS which isn't actually used in battle but is a ''bridge'', similar to the example in the [[King Arthur|Arthurian mythology]] on which the game is based, above.
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