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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9767387" data-attributes="member: 22779">Sorry, but, who didn't lug spears around most of the time?  Nearly anyone who was headed out into the wilderness took a spear, starting all the way back in paleolithic times all the way up to Roman era and, depending on the part of the world, right up to the advent of gun powder weapons.  Carrying a spear was FAAAAR more common than carrying a sword.  Swords are absolutely crap weapons against anything that isn't a human.  Who would you put money on against a charging boar - man with sword or man with spear?  I'm going to point out that the specifics of your particular game are not terribly relevant here.  Frankly, I don't really care what you are doing at your table, any more than you care about what I'm doing at mine.Fighters almost always carry shields, even if they have swords, so, that's moot.  And, there are 6 foot swords in D&D.  Which is the same length as your spear.  I can't imagine that it's all that much different trying to crawl around with a four foot sword on my hip or a six foot spear strapped to my back.  They are likely both going to be rather difficult for crawling around in.  <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" title="Person shrugging    :person_shrugging:" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> Just because a weapon might be inconvenient in one fairly specific location doesn't really matter all that much.  Overall?  Spears should be used FAR more in the game than they are.  But, since spears suck and virtually none of the cool weapons are spears plus the fandom love swords FARRRR too much to ever give them up, that means that spears will virtually never be used by PC's.I mean, good grief in forty years of gaming I cannot recall a single fighter type that focused on spears.  Not one.  That's how crap spears are in D&D.</blockquote>

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