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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BASHMAN" data-source="post: 3574193" data-attributes="member: 8277">no, No, NO!  It is not a military fork, it is not some wacky sci-fi space weapon, it is a real historical item.A two-headed spear simply has a spearhead on both ends of the shaft.  One is much smaller than the other (more of a spike than a true spearhead).  The reason for this was twofold.  The small spike helped ancor the spear in the ground against a charge (as we know the greeks as well as many other real-earth cultures DID use a 6'long spear as a 1-handed weapon, contrary to D&D rules.).  The spike allowed them to hold it vs. a charge quite well even with only 1 hand, so they could use the other hand to hold up their massive shields (which are something between a large shield and a tower shield, again, unsupported by D&D rules).The secondary purpose was as a backup weapon if their first spear-head was sundered.  I would treat this second spike as the D&D short-spear, because it actually was a crap weapon (unlike the main spear-head which should be a d8 dmg x3 crit weapon).  The name of this type of spear used by the Greeks is the Doru.  You can read all about it <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/doru-1" target="_blank">here</a>  As you can see, it is definitely not that crappy 3.5 shortspear.  It is a decent weapon, like the 3.5 "spear" would be if it was allowed to be 1-handed martial instead of only 2-handed simple.</blockquote>