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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7287381" data-attributes="member: 2525">This...makes no sense to me. The Pike cannot be used that way because of the pommel, which interferes with turning it around. The halbred, glaive and quarterstaff don't have this issue, regardless of one handed or two handed. It has nothing to do with the number of hands being used. You can hold the quarterstaff in the middle, in one hand. That's not an unusual thing to do, it's intended that way. This gives the skilled user the ability to hit someone with one end and then flip it around and him someone with the other end, using one hand to do it. There is nothing in the way of your grip with a quarterstaff preventing you from doing this, unlike with other weapons which have a pommel. Here, watch a simple demonstration of what you just called &quot;physically impossible&quot;:[video=youtube;U5QmrllB7cQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5QmrllB7cQ[/video]More importantly, the rules say it works that way, and the designer of the rules (Jeremy Crawford) has responded to inquiries about the issue and repeated that yes it works that way. How are you justifying this as not a house rule? I mean, it's fine for your home games, but when you take on the task of publicly DMing a game open to the public under the AL rules which explicitly say you cannot use your own house rules, how are you justifying this as an &quot;interpretation&quot; when you know darn well the rules don't agree with you and the designer of the rules says he doesn't agree with you?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 7287381, member: 2525"] This...makes no sense to me. The Pike cannot be used that way because of the pommel, which interferes with turning it around. The halbred, glaive and quarterstaff don't have this issue, regardless of one handed or two handed. It has nothing to do with the number of hands being used. You can hold the quarterstaff in the middle, in one hand. That's not an unusual thing to do, it's intended that way. This gives the skilled user the ability to hit someone with one end and then flip it around and him someone with the other end, using one hand to do it. There is nothing in the way of your grip with a quarterstaff preventing you from doing this, unlike with other weapons which have a pommel. Here, watch a simple demonstration of what you just called "physically impossible": [video=youtube;U5QmrllB7cQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5QmrllB7cQ[/video] More importantly, the rules say it works that way, and the designer of the rules (Jeremy Crawford) has responded to inquiries about the issue and repeated that yes it works that way. How are you justifying this as not a house rule? I mean, it's fine for your home games, but when you take on the task of publicly DMing a game open to the public under the AL rules which explicitly say you cannot use your own house rules, how are you justifying this as an "interpretation" when you know darn well the rules don't agree with you and the designer of the rules says he doesn't agree with you? [/QUOTE]

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