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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad Hamish" data-source="post: 5979966" data-attributes="member: 25321">Actually I'm explain the situation as I see it and giving reasons for why I hold the opinion.Could you please quote the rules that let you wield a 2 handed weapon with 1 hand in Pathfinder or give a page reference to where they are? (iirc there was Monkey-Grip in 3.x) I don't remember it and you haven't quoted them yet.Except that's not what it says. It says that you can wield a one handed weapon in two hands and has the strength and a half damage, it does not say that it becomes a 2 handed weapon. The fact that Power Attack specifies that the increased damage applies to 2-handed weapons and to 1-handed weapons wielded in both hands suggests strongly that a 1-handed weapon isn't a 2-handed weapon when wielded in both hands.If they intended it to be a 2 handed weapon wouldn't they say "a one handed weapon wielded in 2 hands functions as a 2 handed weapon" rather than stating the damage adjustment again?The fact that a 1 handed weapon can be wielded in 2 hands doesn't make it a 2 handed weapon. You can wield a light weapon with 2 hands as well...There are rules to use light or 1 handed weapons with 2 hands. There are not rules for wielding 2 handed weapons in 1 hand that I can recall in Pathfinder (apart from a Phalanx Soldier who can use a Polearm or Spear as a one handed weapon)Rules for wielding a 1 handed weapon in 2 hands does not mean that it is a 2 handed weapon for all purposes.Mithril typically bypasses damage resistance silver but it isn't silver. A +4 sword bypasses damage resistance Adamantium but it isn't an Adamantium sword.Yes people can use a 1 handed weapon in 2 hands, find anywhere that I've denied that or that you get the 1.5 times str damage bonus. It doesn't mean that it becomes a 2 handed weapon.The wording of Power Attack which specifically includes it as a second case is a very good reason to think that it doesn't become one.</blockquote>

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