Another polearm feat
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Land Outcast
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Edited to change the feat to: "When making a full attack with a polearm, you can choose to forefit the first attack so as to attack an oponent adjacent to you."
Griffith Dragonlake
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FWIW, when I was in the SCA I fought with my halberd at reach and at sword-range. Close fighting wasn't difficult once I learned how to do it properly and the halberd was just as effective. What was hilarious was that a number of fighters would think that I would be vulnerable at close range. They looked pretty shocked when I clocked them upside their head! Frankly it was less strenuous to fight in close. I just pivoted my hips and really torqued it up. Fighting at range always involved the risk of tendonitis as my elbows were got strained. I suppose if my forearms were stronger it wouldn't have been a big deal. But let me tell you that the hips can generate a lot of power.
I guess what I'm saying is keep it simple. Just make a feat that allows for close quarter polearm fighting with no penalties and no other benefits. The prereq should be proficiency and Str 13. Oh and allow it for all polearms and staves but disallow it for spears. Can't use those in close quarters.
As far as fighting with the butt, I'd say use the double-weapon rules. You can also put a pseudo spearhead on as a butt cap but realistically the butt is far more effective at parrying that actually damaging your opponent.
Hope this helps.
I guess what I'm saying is keep it simple. Just make a feat that allows for close quarter polearm fighting with no penalties and no other benefits. The prereq should be proficiency and Str 13. Oh and allow it for all polearms and staves but disallow it for spears. Can't use those in close quarters.
As far as fighting with the butt, I'd say use the double-weapon rules. You can also put a pseudo spearhead on as a butt cap but realistically the butt is far more effective at parrying that actually damaging your opponent.
Hope this helps.
There is a feat in the DCv1 called Haft Strike that does this already...not quite as powerful (you have to take a -2 to hit) but the prereqs aren't as high.
Land Outcast
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Griffith: Hum... mabe create such a feat and make it a prerequisite for this one, taking out the "weapon focus".
Danny: DCv1?
Danny: DCv1?
Dragon Compendium volume 1.
That, along with several other polearm Feats and spontaneous arcane caster-focused Bloodline Feats are among the primary reasons I bought the book...which has other good stuff besides!
That, along with several other polearm Feats and spontaneous arcane caster-focused Bloodline Feats are among the primary reasons I bought the book...which has other good stuff besides!
Land Outcast
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Here in Uruguay we get little of that stuff 
(try buying Dragon monthly when the base shipping is of 26 bucks; and about the compendium: Amazon doesn't freakin' send books from paizo to Uruguay... this could turn into a rant)
(try buying Dragon monthly when the base shipping is of 26 bucks; and about the compendium: Amazon doesn't freakin' send books from paizo to Uruguay... this could turn into a rant)
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Have you contacted Paizo directly? You may just find a sympathetic ear.
Land Outcast
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Actually I had been making some research and found a "reliable" (friends have ordered through there more than once and have had no trouble at all) site which might prove a solution to my problem. (The book thing, not the magazine; At the beggining I started said research to get the Shackled City Campaign)
aside: not to hijack our conversation, but: what do you think about the feat?
aside: not to hijack our conversation, but: what do you think about the feat?
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