The 1st-level spell Fog Cloud is the most accessible method of doing this. If you can’t see the target, and the target can’t see you, then both Advantage and Disadvantage have been applied and negated, preventing any further modifications to the roll. But there’s another way to negate the Disadvantage that would not also give you Advantage. Thus an already Large weapon does not grow to Huge. The advantage to this is that the Rune Knight doesn’t increase in size relative to their previous size, instead becoming Large. The other method is to use the Rune Knight’s Giant’s Might feature. Since all of the target’s equipment also enlarges, a Large weapon is suddenly Huge and thus remains too large for the user without doing a dumb manuver of dropping it and picking it up to get the effect off. The spell Enlarge/Reduce can do the trick, but the wording of the spell can become problematic. There are two reasonable ways to become Large. This would in turn allow the Large weapon user to gain Advantage if it were available. If we could be Large somehow, this would also work, but instead of canceling out the Disadvantage it wouldn’t occur to begin with. It’s even possible to get that much of a swing with as little as the Archery fighting style and an oversized ranged weapon, or using the Bless spell. There are, of course, exceptions where the math swings so far in the other direction that even swinging the bigger weapon with Disadvantage beats the smaller weapon with Advantage. The way the math works, if we can get the Advantage required to defeat the Disadvantage, your DPR is usually better just having Advantage with a medium-sized weapon than having a straight roll with the large weapon. This penalty is enough to make the weapons a poor choice in most situations. The only thing keeping most PCs from using these weapons is that a creature has Disadvantage with any weapon sized too large for them. As an example, a large flail would do 2d8 bludgeoning damage, while a large maul would do 4d6 bludgeoning damage. The basic concept is that as a weapon increases in size, the weapon dice are added again for every step above Medium, as per the rules on page 278 of the DMG. Oversized weapons are an interesting and hotly debated topic in 5e Dungeons and Dragons.
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