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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 489462" data-attributes="member: 1331">With a pike 16' long, you cannot attack 15' away. That would involve holding the whole shaft extended, using just your arm strength; a normal human doesn't have the leverage to make an effective attack that way, even if he can hold the tip up.To control the point of the weapon, you have your hands widely separated, and you use your body weight to balance. This gives you the leverage to make attacks, but it reduces your reach significantly. In the D20 system, reach comes in increments of 5', so your pike is a 10' reach weapon.Someone with superhuman strength might be able to wield a pike with straight arms, or a Huge longspear like a regular one. A feat that allows this, with a prereq of high Str (25+), would seem to be be powerful but not game-breaking.</blockquote>