Timeline for Alternate, 2H, non-double use of quarterstaff?
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| Apr 9, 2014 at 17:16 | comment | added | Jason_c_o | A Double weapon is considered two weapons, but only when TwF. They do explain what that means. "Just as if..." means you treat it as two weapons. Its not meaningless on its own because that is the ruling. | |
| Apr 9, 2014 at 16:38 | comment | added | KRyan | @mxyzplk Grammatically, the "just as though the character were wielding a one-handed weapon and a light weapon," line refers to attack penalties only. So that is what the rules actually say. I absolutely agree that your interpretation is the intended one, and it doesn't surprise me that they used it for monsters. That's fine, but also not relevant to the answer I submitted. The statement made is that it's not what the rules say, regardless of intent, and that the rules work better this way. | |
| Apr 9, 2014 at 16:30 | comment | added | mxyzplk | You do not get the 1.5xSTR when two-weapon fighting with a double weapon, you get 1x and .5x "just as though the character were wielding a one-handed weapon and a light weapon." Proof is every monster stat block that uses a quarterstaff, e.g. d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/monstrous-humanoids/… | |
| Apr 9, 2014 at 15:55 | comment | added | KRyan | @Jason_c_o I wasn't merely asserting here; I laid out exactly why the rules work the way I claim in my answer. If you want to argue that point, A. this isn't a great place for it, and B. you have to address my actual argument, not merely assert that I'm wrong. The long and short of it is, while you get the extra attack as if using Two-Weapon Fighting, and take attack penalties as if using Two-Weapon Fighting, you don't actually have two weapons, and the one weapon you have is wielded in two hands. Nothing says it deals damage as anything other than a two-handed weapon. | |
| Apr 9, 2014 at 15:53 | comment | added | Jason_c_o | There's a difference between two-weapon fighting and two-handing. If you two-hand a quarterstaff in order to attack with only one end you lose the extra attack granted by the "off-hand" end of the weapon and two-weapon fighting, but gain the ability to strike once with 1.5X Str; two-weapon fighting no longer applies. | |
| Apr 9, 2014 at 12:20 | history | answered | KRyan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |