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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 2906263" data-attributes="member: 41321">I could see a spear as a polearm.  Like you said, it's a poking type of polearm.I may be wrong (I'm not a weapon's expert) but I think you use a quarterstaff differently than you do a polearm.  Quarterstaves usually work best when swung around in a circle, using the momentum of the staff to give it power.  Good quarterstaves are weighted so they can be balanced in the middle, and this makes it extremely easy to spin one, compared to a spear or a halberd.  Spears and harlberds are weighted towards the business end.  There may be a metal cap or something on the other end of the pole, but were you to try and balance a spear you'd probably find its center closer to the spearhead than the blunt end.  This means you can't spin a spear quite the same way you can with a quarterstaff.  I know less about polearms than I do about quartersaves, but from what I recall you usually thrust a polearm, and when you do swing it you make an arc, but not a circle.  The weight of the business end lets it get more momentum so you don't need to swing it absolutely all the way around like you'd need to do with a quarterstaff.Can you imagine sitting on the back of a horse and swinging a quarterstaff (held at one end) at somebody running by?  You'd give them a knock on the head, but that would be it.  Take the same quarterstaff and hold it in the middle, standing next to someone on the ground.  Bring the quarterstaff up and around, knocking him in the head with the end that was on the ground a moment ago.  If you do it right you'd knock him out, and may even kill him if you did it with enough power.You simply do not use quarterstaves and polearms the same way, therefore a quarterstaff is not a polearm (IMO).</blockquote>

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