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Message: <blockquote data-quote="0bsolete" data-source="post: 4144009" data-attributes="member: 56795">A player wanted to make a character who used a spear and net (he's not big on tridents). The problem he found though, was that the spear is a two-handed weapon. Now, looking back through history you find many groups of people who used spears and spear like weapons as one handed weapons. Any group which used a phalanx formation, most greek heroes, many of the roman gladiators, and countless other groups. Even mounted units. At first when he pointed this out to me, my first instinct was to go with the book, then I thought about it and realized it didn't make sense. This is a 6lb spear, so its as heavy as many one-handed weapons and lighter than a couple (heavy mace is one). Its not long enough to have reach and can be thrown pretty accurately over a distance, so obviously its not too long.Would you chaps say it is fair to make it so that it is a two-handed weapon as a simple, but a one-handed as a martial? I can definitely understand where it would be unwieldly especially to somebody with almost no major training.</blockquote>