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<blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 7714943" data-attributes="member: 6802951">No justification needed unless you have someone hung up more on realism than the tropes that you want your game to express. Simply houserule that quarterstaves (or indeed any/every weapon) has the Finesse property.&nbsp;It might be worth considering whether you want to word it as &quot;reach&quot; for all of them, or some might simply have &quot;may make an attack against a target up to 10ft away&quot; or similar wording. Reach interacts with attacks of opportunity and other effects in ways that you might prefer to keep standard.&nbsp;I houseruled that the quarterstaves in the weapons table were the actual 6ft+ solid wood object that first comes to mind with the name. Thus they were two-handed rather than versatile. Giving reach to them wouldn't be a stretch. However, as they are, you might want to distinguish between the 3-4ft long clubs/hanbo/jo/walking sticks usable in one or two hands, to which giving a reach option probably isn't appropriate, and the full-out staff which should require both hands, but to which reach is probably more appropriate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cap'n Kobold, post: 7714943, member: 6802951"] No justification needed unless you have someone hung up more on realism than the tropes that you want your game to express. Simply houserule that quarterstaves (or indeed any/every weapon) has the Finesse property. It might be worth considering whether you want to word it as "reach" for all of them, or some might simply have "may make an attack against a target up to 10ft away" or similar wording. Reach interacts with attacks of opportunity and other effects in ways that you might prefer to keep standard. I houseruled that the quarterstaves in the weapons table were the actual 6ft+ solid wood object that first comes to mind with the name. Thus they were two-handed rather than versatile. Giving reach to them wouldn't be a stretch. However, as they are, you might want to distinguish between the 3-4ft long clubs/hanbo/jo/walking sticks usable in one or two hands, to which giving a reach option probably isn't appropriate, and the full-out staff which should require both hands, but to which reach is probably more appropriate. [/QUOTE]

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