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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BASHMAN" data-source="post: 3405994" data-attributes="member: 8277">My issue with the shortspear in RAW is not that it does a d6 damage.  I don't care about that.  It is the x2 Critical that is ridiculous.  Arrows, longspears, spears all have x3.  Why not the shortspear?  Answer- because it is a 1 handed simple weapon and somebody at WOTC decided that in 3.5 the laws of physics would change so all simple weapons held in one hand only do x2 crit.  The Half-Spear from 3.0 was a perfect weapon to use for doing Hoplites.  1d6 dmg, 20' range, x3 crit.  The shortspear in 3.5 is a watered down version of it.As far as the not having 10' reach thing, I disagree.  Assume that an attack must reach from the end of your square to the center of the opponents square.  Assuming that your attack comes from the center of your own square assumes that you are not reaching towards your opponent, which is just dumb.  It comes from the end of your own square, because you are leaning towards your target and reaching toward them.  That means to hit someone in the next square, you need to reach 2.5 feet, aka the length of your arm, which is why an unarmed strike can hit in spite of using 5' squares.  To reach someone two squares away, you need to reach 7.5 feet.  Subtract the 2.5 for the length of your arm, and you get 5'.  The spears used by the spartans (and the spear in the phb) is at least 6' long.  So if you choked up on it near one end, you should be able to make a lunge at someone 2 squares away.</blockquote>

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