Now a standard military pike is a poor weapon for single combat (when fighting humanoid weapon-wielding enemies), but the pike the in PHP is short and would function as a perfectly …

A pike has the two-handed property, while a spear has the versatile property. This means that a spear can be wielded with one or two hands, while a pike must be wielded with 2 hands. A …

2015年7月1日 · A pike is not a spear, nor a long spear. Similarly a long spear is not a pike. The weapon you are looking for is therefore not set as an option. However if you look on the side …

The pike, however, does not benefit from the first bullet-point of Polearm Master, and so is strictly inferior--mechanically speaking--to either of the glaive or halberd.) So we turn back to my …

One anomaly in the weapon tables in D&D 5e is the weight of the Maul, Pike, and Greatclub -- they all go into double digits, which is awful heavy for a melee weapon you're expected to …

Halberds and glaives are generally around 8 feet long irl, the same size as the longer end of typical two-handed spears. If the dnd "pike" is actually supposed to be a heavy spear, then it …

The pike was the natural choice of weapon for them. Mechanically, glave would be basically the same, but I can't imagine someone using a glave underwater. Something I've thought about …

2017年12月10日 · The others all do slashing or bludgeoning. Glaives, halberds, and quarterstaffs are swung (rotated) by the wielder, making a back end bludgeoning feasible by a master …

Technically if it's 15 feet long it's a Macedonian Sarissa not a Pike. There's even more variations in real life than in DnD which all function in game as "pole-arm". I real life poleaxe wouldn't …

2021年8月17日 · Justification - I have seen the Pike described as "mostly an npc troop weapon for defense," and that's perfectly fine. This special quality actually promotes that kind of …