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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zaruthustran" data-source="post: 3411132" data-attributes="member: 1457">I'm with Kmart Kommando on this one. I think the entry for Strength should take precedence over the entry for weapons when determining how Strength bonuses are applied to damage."Two-handed attacks" seems to mean "an attack made with two hands", not "an attack with a two-handed weapon, regardless of how that weapon is wielded". Plus, the designations of light, one-handed, and two-handed are just D&D-speak for "relative weapon size". So, a medium creature using a two-handed weapon in one hand would apply just 1x his Str bonus to damage, even though the weapon is designated in size as being "two-handed." You're not getting 1.5xStr bonus with that lance while mounted. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The 1.5x str bonus only applies when a person has two actual hands providing power to the weapon's strike, so long as the weapon isn't too small/sized as "light". Given all of the above, I read the entry for "two-handed" in the overview of weapon sizes to be:"Two-Handed: Two hands are required to use a two-handed melee weapon effectively. [Assuming a medium creature is using the weapon effectively by wielding it with both hands, apply the rules from the entry for Strength, summarized here: ] Apply 1-1/2 times the character’s Strength bonus to damage rolls for melee attacks with such a weapon." -z</blockquote>

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