The Spear

Requires: ✧ Strength
Origins: All
Start with: ✪ Reach, spear

The spear is perhaps the most broadly effective melee weapon in the realm. Tipped with a small, leaf-shaped bronze blade, a spear makes a fine offensive and defensive weapon.

A spear requires ✦✦ Strength to wield with one hand.
If you’re strong enough to wield a spear one-handed, you can throw it as a ranged weapon any number of spans away.
✪ Quick Thrust and some other spear abilities also works with straightswords, as both are stabbing weapons. Spear-wielding warriors often carry straightswords as sidearms for this reason.

You start with the following ability:

✪ Reach

✧ Strength If a foe hopes to strike you, they must first get past your spear! When a foe makes a melee attack or tries to take hold of you, you can take -1 guard or awareness to strike them first with a free spear attack. Your attack can’t be countered.You can declare this ability after the foe rolls their attack. Keep the foe’s roll, but resolve your free spear attack first. This ability doesn’t work if the foe also has a spear or a similarly long weapon or appendage. Nor does it work if the foe Outlfanks you, if their attack can’t be countered, or if they’re making a counterattack.

Ask the Guide:

What's the composition and origin of that spear?
How well does that warrior know how to use their spear?
How can we strike to the point of the matter?

Abilities to Learn

.5xp new ability | 10xp with attribute increase

✪ Downward Thrust

✧ Agility When you jump-attack a foe with a spear or straightsword and your attack hits or strikes armor (before applying bonuses), roll a d4 and add it to the attack along with the other bonuses.Also, the height penalty to your jump-attacks is reduced by 1—but only when you wield a spear.

✪ Quick Thrust

✦✧ Agility When you attack with a spear or straightsword and miss, you don’t provoke a counterattack and can reroll your attack. If you use a straightsword, the reroll has a -2 penalty. This ability doesn't work with jump-attacks or the Reach ability's free attack.

✪ Spear Mastery

✦✧ Intellect Gain +1 max Awareness. Your intense study of spear fighting bears fruit. You can take -1 awareness to gain a +2 bonus to a spear attack. You must declare this ability before rolling the attack.

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