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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 1453096" data-attributes="member: 3400">According to 3.5, I don't think throwing a shortspear is a full-round action. According to how it's listed in 3.5, it wouldn't even require a full-round action in 3.0. In 3.5, the shortspear is a one-handed weapon and it's TWO-handed weapons that would have taken a full-round action to throw. That shortspear is also the equivalent of the 3.0 half-spear (compare the stats).The spear (with no length modifier in the name) in 3.5 is the equivalent of the 3.0 shortspear and it does list as a two-handed weapon. I'm not sure that the rule about two-handed weapons requiring a full-round action applies though. That rule in 3.5 is well buried within the paragraph on improvised thrown weapons along with critical ranges for such things. If that sentence is supposed to apply to all thrown weapons, then I would have to figure that the ones following it do to and that there should just be another paragraph break before the sentence starts. I doubt that's really the intent, though. For my money, that passage about two-handed thrown weapons requiring a full round action only applies to improvised weapons. A spear may be a two-handed melee weapon, but it's quite effective as a one-handed thrown weapon too.Of far more significance to making a full attack with thrown spears is how long it takes to pick them up and throw them. Drawing a weapon is a move action (unless you have quickdraw) and, as I understand it, picking up a thrown weapon so you can throw it is a move action. You don't get a move action in a round you take a full attack action and so you would get only one shot. Reloading most ammunition, which is specifically set to include thrown shuriken as an exception, is a free action and thus does not prevent you from firing multiple times during a full attack action. So if you wanted to chuck off 3 spears because you have 3 attacks available, invest in Quickdraw. See also the description of Quickdraw which makes this pretty explicit.</blockquote>

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