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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaylos" data-source="post: 6353095" data-attributes="member: 6778092">I know when I lived in the south, Single stick + Madu was pretty popular for a while, if not exactly historic.  A madu is basically a staff with spear tips on the ends, usually with a boss over the hand.As for sword and shield, it isn't all bad.  A guy on reddit listed the Shield master feat, allowing a shield user to get a free shove as Bonus Action.  Pretty nasty being able to get a free shove action every turn, and makes Strength a little more attractive since a Dex monkey shield user wouldn't get much benefit from it.  The other styles have to give up an attack for a shove while the shield user would not.  Combine that with Duelist fighting style, and the damage isn't too bad either as shown in my post above.As for the SCA, Sword/Shield dominates the tourney lists for the most part, but there is the occasional Two Stick or Polearm fighter than wins the top tourney lists.  I had a guy from my household win the Midrealm crown list with a Polearm.  He is downright nasty with that damn thing and it is definitely a double weapon.  He uses that buttspike to deadly effect at close range.edit: A Duelist Shield user does about 15% less base damage (not accounting for crits) than a GWF.  His 2 Ac advantage turns into about 15% less damage taken against +11 hit (21 vs 19 AC assuming defnsive taken as 2nd style).  So not too far off from each other.  Also he gets a free shove and against less than +11 starts to take significantly less damage than a GWF using a Greatsword/Maul.</blockquote>

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