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<blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 2154366" data-attributes="member: 1656">That's debatable (and debated).It's certainly treated as a one-handed weapon and a light weapon for the purposes of penalties related to two-weapon fighting.&quot;A character can fight with both ends of a double weapon as if fighting with two weapons, but he or she incurs all the normal attack penalties associated with two-weapon combat, just as though the character were wielding a one-handed weapon and a light weapon.&quot;There's also a note under Power Attack:POWER ATTACK [GENERAL]Special: If you attack with a two-handed weapon, or with a one-handed weapon wielded in two hands, instead add twice the number subtracted from your attack rolls. You can’t add the bonus from Power Attack to the damage dealt with a light weapon (except with unarmed strikes or natural weapon attacks), even though the penalty on attack rolls still applies. (Normally, you treat a double weapon as a one-handed weapon and a light weapon. If you choose to use a double weapon like a two-handed weapon, attacking with only one end of it in a round, you treat it as a two-handed weapon.)It's unclear from this whether &quot;Normally, you treat a double weapon as a one-handed weapon and a light weapon&quot; means &quot;Normally, for the purposes of Power Attack&quot;, or &quot;Normally, for all purposes&quot;.But it can certainly be argued that it does, in fact, only apply to the Power Attack feat, which means that as written, a double weapon is treated as a one-handed and light weapon a/ for the purpose of attack penalties associated with two-weapon combat, and b/ for the purpose of Power Attack.A double weapon used for a Disarm attempt, for example, would still gain a +4 bonus... since it is a two-handed weapon, and the -4 a light weapon receives in Disarms applies whether or not the wielder is engaged in two-weapon combat, and is thus not an attack penalty associated with two-weapon combat, and thus for purposes of Disarms, the double weapon is not treated as a combination of one-handed and light weapon.-Hyp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hypersmurf, post: 2154366, member: 1656"] That's debatable (and debated). It's certainly treated as a one-handed weapon and a light weapon [i]for the purposes of penalties related to two-weapon fighting[/i]. "A character can fight with both ends of a double weapon as if fighting with two weapons, but he or she incurs all the normal attack penalties associated with two-weapon combat, just as though the character were wielding a one-handed weapon and a light weapon." There's also a note under Power Attack: [i][b]POWER ATTACK [GENERAL] Special:[/b] If you attack with a two-handed weapon, or with a one-handed weapon wielded in two hands, instead add twice the number subtracted from your attack rolls. You can’t add the bonus from Power Attack to the damage dealt with a light weapon (except with unarmed strikes or natural weapon attacks), even though the penalty on attack rolls still applies. (Normally, you treat a double weapon as a one-handed weapon and a light weapon. If you choose to use a double weapon like a two-handed weapon, attacking with only one end of it in a round, you treat it as a two-handed weapon.)[/i] It's unclear from this whether "Normally, you treat a double weapon as a one-handed weapon and a light weapon" means "Normally, [i]for the purposes of Power Attack[/i]", or "Normally, [i]for all purposes[/i]". But it can certainly be argued that it does, in fact, only apply to the Power Attack feat, which means that as written, a double weapon is treated as a one-handed and light weapon a/ for the purpose of attack penalties associated with two-weapon combat, and b/ for the purpose of Power Attack. A double weapon used for a Disarm attempt, for example, would still gain a +4 bonus... since it is a two-handed weapon, and the -4 a light weapon receives in Disarms applies whether or not the wielder is engaged in two-weapon combat, and is thus not an attack penalty associated with two-weapon combat, and thus for purposes of Disarms, the double weapon is not treated as a combination of one-handed and light weapon. -Hyp. [/QUOTE]

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