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Dual-classing has gone the way of the dodo... hasn't been part of the game for a while. These days, it's just multi-classing, and all races can multiclass any classes you want. No level restrictions.

To get all the specifics, take a look at the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, or over at the SRD (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/) to get all the specifics. The computer games you are basing your experiences off of were based off of the D&D 2nd edition rules... Pathfinder is effectively 3 versions of the rules removed from that, and the playing field has changed a good bit in that time.

I would definitely NOT include boar spear or harpoon. Read the description of those weapons. Boar spears have a spiraled weapon head and a crossguard, and harpoons have a barbed head. Both of those weapons, by their very nature, are far too technically complex to have been available to a Neanderthal.

Great Club (and the regular ol' Club, of course) make perfect sense. A stone-headed hand axe, perhaps. Same thing with a stone-bladed dagger. Spears, certainly, either just as a sharpened wooden shaft or a stone blade.

While they couldn't make them, they could probably use most of the simple weapons if they took them off previous kills. After all, at it's essence, all a mace or morning star is, is an improved club. The skill to use them is the same.

I had used the search, but as I've just checked again and gotten results, I must have typoed something the first time I tried.

And here I was about to complain about it being a lousy search function, like so many other forums I've used over the years.

At any rate, thanks for the polite response and the information. I'll look through some of the other threads and see what I can find something a little more satisfactory. I come from a background for actually having used a number of the weapons that exist in game (over a dozen years of stage combat and stunt training) and so disagree with rules from time to time. I'd certainly agree with a partial penalty (either a minus to hit and/or reduced damage from normal) but to simply say, as they do in this case, "you can't do that" is just flat out wrong.

I'm pretty new to PF, so I'm still learning my way around the rules. I know that polearms with the Reach quality are not usable against an adjacent opponent. Is there a Feat available that would allow the use of a Reach weapon in close?