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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9891574" data-attributes="member: 2209">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucerne_hammer" target="_blank">lucerne hammer</a> is a polearm that incorporates a hammer as part of it, so you could use the hammer part instead of the spear point and back spike, but the hammer is a mulitpronged one so even that is a cleric prohibited pointed weapon as well.[ATTACH=full]434192[/ATTACH]This is all so much easier to figure out with wikipedia now. Back then the only circumstantial clues from the PH was that it was 5'+ long, required 5' of space to wield and had the same special quality as a bunch of polearms - &quot;Italics indicate weapon capable of dismounting a rider on a score equal to or greater than the “to hit” score.&quot; The books on medieval weapons and stuff that I got from the library as an eight-year old first playing D&amp;D did not go into this level of detail on specific polearms.Otherwise &quot;hammer, lucerne&quot; seems like a specific type of hammer the way that &quot;flail, horseman's&quot; is a specific type of flail.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9891574, member: 2209"] The [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucerne_hammer']lucerne hammer[/URL] is a polearm that incorporates a hammer as part of it, so you could use the hammer part instead of the spear point and back spike, but the hammer is a mulitpronged one so even that is a cleric prohibited pointed weapon as well. [ATTACH type="full" size="500x889"]434192[/ATTACH] This is all so much easier to figure out with wikipedia now. Back then the only circumstantial clues from the PH was that it was 5'+ long, required 5' of space to wield and had the same special quality as a bunch of polearms - "Italics indicate weapon capable of dismounting a rider on a score equal to or greater than the “to hit” score." The books on medieval weapons and stuff that I got from the library as an eight-year old first playing D&D did not go into this level of detail on specific polearms. Otherwise "hammer, lucerne" seems like a specific type of hammer the way that "flail, horseman's" is a specific type of flail. [/QUOTE]

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