Chief Creative Officer, Publisher
|
We decided to make the article comprehensive after we'd ordered the art. Originally, the article was to cover only the pole arms listed.
Future articles of this type will illustrate everything other than those weapons that appear in the Player's Handbook.
As a rule, the pole arms in question are spread over about a half-dozen sources. Ones that sound Asian are uniformly from Oriental Adventures. Several others are from Arms & Equipment.
I know it's not ideal, but if you're curious about what the other pole arms look like, a Google image search is probably the fastest way to track them down.
--Erik Mona
Editor-in-Chief
Dragon & Dungeon
I seem to remember from my youth a pre 100 issue had an article on Polearms though not as comprehensive as this current one. That issue had them all pictured. How bout filling the missing items out online? Just a thought.....
-Dave
|
Since others have started in on 331, I won't start a separate thread - but I do have a question on the Pole Arms article.
The Warpike, Dwarven (the last weapon on the table) lists a DMG (S) of 1d8 and a DMG (M) of 2d6.
Normally 1d8 increases to 1d10, and 1d10 increases to 2d6.
I assume there is a mistake. Is the damage for the small version supposed to be 1d10? Or is the damage for the medium version supposed to be 1d10?
...and where's the classic of all classic pole arms?
...The Bohemian Ear Spoon?!
http://www.earmi.it/armi/glossario/glossario04.htm
- Chris Shadowens
Contributor
|
Normally 1d8 increases to 1d10, and 1d10 increases to 2d6.
No mistake. According to Table 4-3: Increased Damage by Size in the Monster Manual (page 291) and Table 2-2: Increasing Weapon Damage by Size in the Dungeon Master's Guide (page 28), 1d8 turns into 2d6 when the size increases by one step.
|
|
Normally 1d8 increases to 1d10, and 1d10 increases to 2d6.No mistake. According to Table 4-3: Increased Damage by Size in the Monster Manual (page 291) and Table 2-2: Increasing Weapon Damage by Size in the Dungeon Master's Guide (page 28), 1d8 turns into 2d6 when the size increases by one step.
You know, I had realized I was mistaken. It just didn't look right at the time, and several other weapons when going from small to medium went from 1d8 to 1d10.
One bit of feedback I have about this article: I found it really tedious how often it was stated and restated what it means when a weapon has reach in each weapon's decription. Duplicated definitions of the reach ability probably made up about 1/5th to 1/6th of all the text in the article! Wouldn't it be more elegant to just put an asterisk next to all the reach weapons on the master chart, or something? Then you could just print the ability description once in the key to the chart.
it was really cool seeing all the old school polearms in print again, plus with some great new stuff for using them. :)
...and where's the classic of all classic pole arms?
...The Bohemian Ear Spoon?!
...*sigh* At least no one was yelling "RTFM you idiot!", which I clearly hadn't when I posted (I'd just skimmed through it.) Saw that a partisan is sometimes referred to as the bohemian ear-spoon. That'll teach me to blindly post. :)
- Chris Shadowens
The Eberron Errata list the correct crit for a sharrash as 19-20/x2, not 19-20/x4 as listed in the article. Though as a player I wish the chart was right.