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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Diamabel" data-source="post: 6493659" data-attributes="member: 6788929">I stated that I was looking at halberds, glaives and quarterstaves with a length of 5'-7'.  And yes, there is most certainly a way that these weapons are *extremely* effective at close range. The efficiency of weapons of these types is that they have both range and versatility(in reality, not the 5th ed weapon property <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ), it's not a "close range *or* long range" weapon: it's both. You could reasonably argue that the butt strike be limited to a 5' range, but the business end can be used both at 10' range and 5' range. The drawback, as some have stated is the lack of a free hand to use a shield.The anomaly is the pike: it gets lumped in with the other, shorter pole arms(again, of 5' to 7" length), when it really shouldn't. More realistically (if you were so inclined) you could give a 12'-18' pike a range of 15' or 20', with it unable to be used effectively within 5'.The other feats mentioned are decent, but are not on the same level as GWM, CM and PM (in my opinion)</blockquote>