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Fighter Weapon Training Advice: Is there a Heavy Blade with Reach?
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<blockquote data-quote="Arakasius" data-source="post: 7400252" data-attributes="member: 6944960"><p>Heavy blade in PF1 isn’t used a lot. It’s basically things like the greatsword, falchion, etc. I agree the glaive has a blade (as does the Fauchard or some other bladed reach weapons) but none of them count as heavy blades.</p><p></p><p>For your later two statements there is nothing preventing a player from doing it. Dropping a weapon as a free action and using a move to draw (or having something like quick draw) is totally fine. And five foot step like you said is how all reach characters in PF are played. </p><p></p><p>The problem with that is none of those fit the Lan Mandragoran/blade master archetype from Wheel of Time, especially not the two weapon option. The heron marked blade is integral to the image of the master, and these characters invest in mastery of it above anything else. I don’t think starting a combat with another weapon they only intend to drop fits that archetype.</p><p></p><p>Now a reach weapon that could work, but reach in d20 means attacking a character at a range they can’t interact with you. That to me doesn’t fit the blade master character either. All of the sword forms are very much about interacting with a character attacking you. Reach weapons don’t fit that theme. Blade masters are about dueling, and reach weapons is not dueling.</p><p></p><p>Now what you could do is look into ways to give yourself reach with a heavy blade. Lunge doesn’t work since it’s only on your turn. Combat patrol could work but not at your level. If you don’t mind changing classes an Aberrent bloodrager works, since at level four they get long arms as their bloodline power. Don’t think you can turn that into a wand though (long arm spell). Not sure what other temp reach options there are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arakasius, post: 7400252, member: 6944960"] Heavy blade in PF1 isn’t used a lot. It’s basically things like the greatsword, falchion, etc. I agree the glaive has a blade (as does the Fauchard or some other bladed reach weapons) but none of them count as heavy blades. For your later two statements there is nothing preventing a player from doing it. Dropping a weapon as a free action and using a move to draw (or having something like quick draw) is totally fine. And five foot step like you said is how all reach characters in PF are played. The problem with that is none of those fit the Lan Mandragoran/blade master archetype from Wheel of Time, especially not the two weapon option. The heron marked blade is integral to the image of the master, and these characters invest in mastery of it above anything else. I don’t think starting a combat with another weapon they only intend to drop fits that archetype. Now a reach weapon that could work, but reach in d20 means attacking a character at a range they can’t interact with you. That to me doesn’t fit the blade master character either. All of the sword forms are very much about interacting with a character attacking you. Reach weapons don’t fit that theme. Blade masters are about dueling, and reach weapons is not dueling. Now what you could do is look into ways to give yourself reach with a heavy blade. Lunge doesn’t work since it’s only on your turn. Combat patrol could work but not at your level. If you don’t mind changing classes an Aberrent bloodrager works, since at level four they get long arms as their bloodline power. Don’t think you can turn that into a wand though (long arm spell). Not sure what other temp reach options there are. [/QUOTE]
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