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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 2065260" data-attributes="member: 284">Certain people will deny common sense has anything to do with playing the game, no matter how little sense the rules make when applied to odd situations. RAW are not the end-all-be-all of rules interpretations, and sometimes we have to make an intelligent decision for ourselves as to how the rules do or do not apply to a situation. This seems to give some people problems though. I disagree with Hype on this one. I know it's a two-handed weapon wielded in one hand, but I don't see anything "murky" about applying common sense to this situation.  The Two-handed designation tells you how much effort it requires to wield it. If you are wielding it with one hand on horseback, then it's not being wielding with two hands (obvious, I know). If you aren't wielding it with two-hands, then you aren't applying the effort required to wield it with two-hands, and don't get the two-handed benefit. So, I don't think it works even by RAW. But even if you think the RAW indicates that it does, do you honestly think that's the way it's supposed to work? What explanation do you have for it working that way (aside from the rules not saying that it doesn't work that way)?</blockquote>