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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Estlor" data-source="post: 5624399" data-attributes="member: 7261">I agree in principle to this, but not entirely.  It's going to depend on what you, as a PC, decide is going to be your knight's specialty.  Let's pretend for a moment your knight is a Knight or a Weaponmaster.  Your ideal party role is drawing a front line against monsters, which means staying in one place and trying to be as sticky as possible.  You're absolutely going to choose a heavy blade for that, even if you fight from horseback.But since a lance implies charging around on the battlefield, you're probably not a Knight or a Weaponmaster.  You're probably a Slayer.  In which case, if you're a charge-based PC, spear is infinitely better than heavy blade because of the increased damage output of Spear Expertise.  (The bonus to defenses against OA from Heavy Blade Expertise is largely wasted when you can pick up the badge of the berserker.)  Of course, the gouge is the best weapon here because it combines an axe (which the slayer supports) with the spear (the optimal charging weapon), but you don't see many mounted gouge knights in Dark Sun.No, it's not.  But my point was never that a spear and a lance require the same amount of skill and training to use, just that the spear and lance live in the same design space and, therefore, the spear ate the poor lance for breakfast.</blockquote>