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Spear: d8; versatile d10, and when used two-handed, can be lunged one-handed (d8) with reach.
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<blockquote data-quote="greg kaye" data-source="post: 9026145" data-attributes="member: 7030543"><p>The Roman legions did pretty well against all types of weapon with either gladius or spear in tight, close combat, phalanx formations. The gladius also had that much sort after, mobile advantage of being hands free, at least while not in use. Nonetheless, you make a great point and my every respect comment went too far.</p><p></p><p>It might be interesting though to take the shields away from two equally trained legionaries, one with a nice short gladius and the other with a relatively longer spear and see how they got on.</p><p></p><p>In the real world, daggers could also deal as fatal blows as any weapon to anyone. They were often the weapon of choice once into close combat. Shortswords also have the 5e advantage of finesse. I'm sure that the well-placed hits that we call criticals may have advantaged smaller and finesse-enabled weapons.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Long or short-handed picks and warhammers were notable in the takeover from both spears and (whether great or not) swords when armour became more involved. Armour is a tricky issue but, again, daggers could be great.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greg kaye, post: 9026145, member: 7030543"] The Roman legions did pretty well against all types of weapon with either gladius or spear in tight, close combat, phalanx formations. The gladius also had that much sort after, mobile advantage of being hands free, at least while not in use. Nonetheless, you make a great point and my every respect comment went too far. It might be interesting though to take the shields away from two equally trained legionaries, one with a nice short gladius and the other with a relatively longer spear and see how they got on. In the real world, daggers could also deal as fatal blows as any weapon to anyone. They were often the weapon of choice once into close combat. Shortswords also have the 5e advantage of finesse. I'm sure that the well-placed hits that we call criticals may have advantaged smaller and finesse-enabled weapons. Long or short-handed picks and warhammers were notable in the takeover from both spears and (whether great or not) swords when armour became more involved. Armour is a tricky issue but, again, daggers could be great. [/QUOTE]
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