Just before we begin:
Glaive - 1d10 x3 (reach)
Glaive-Guisarme - 1d10 x3 (brace, reach)
Guisarme - 2d4 x3 (reach, trip)
My question to the boards is, why does the Glaive-Guisarme not have a trip capability? The actual feature of the weapon is that it has the hook of the Guisarme, but also the blade of the Glaive. As the GG is a combination of the hook and blade, why does it lose the trip attack?
Do you think it's right to house-rule the trip back in, as it is, functionally, both a Glaive and a Guisarme? The Glaive-Guisarme, IMO, would be more likely to have trip and reach, rather than brace and reach... or they should all be brace-able, considering all of them have a spike or blade at the tip (but that's a separate matter).
Any comments or suggestions?
Also, I'm going to apologize for once again bringing up the verisimilitude of weapons in an abstracted table-top game. I know we've been over this sort of thing before before, but the GG literally has a Guisarme-hook incorporated into the design, and so I am confused.
It does seem already to be a step up from the glaive in all ways. Is it exotic rather than martial? Because it'd be a flat-out no-brainer to take over the other two otherwise...
All three of those weapons are martial two-handed weapons. There is an exotic two-handed weapon called the Fauchard;
Fauchard - 1d10 18-20x2 (reach, trip)
It fills all the stats, and has an extended base critical. It might be the answer to having all my cake and eating it too, in terms of damage, reach, and tripping, but sucking up a feat to get it is not awesome.
It's on the PFSRD, but I cannot find it in either the Core or APG, so I'll check the source...
It's listed to have been found in "PFCh: CHR", what I'm assuming to be Pathfinder Chronicles, perhaps.
I hope ultimate combat will feature fauchard, meteor hammer, other interesting weapons appeared in PF, and a whole arsenal of weapons :)
It's listed to have been found in "PFCh: CHR", what I'm assuming to be Pathfinder Chronicles, perhaps.
The fauchard is on page 8 of Pathfinder Chronicles: Classic Horrors Revisited.
I hope ultimate combat will feature fauchard, meteor hammer, other interesting weapons appeared in PF, and a whole arsenal of weapons :)
Check the Adventurer's Armory and APG.
I hope ultimate combat will feature fauchard, meteor hammer, other interesting weapons appeared in PF, and a whole arsenal of weapons :)Check the Adventurer's Armory and APG.
Yeah.. I simply wished for a full reprint in the hardcovers for all things missing (I already bought the APG) and for new stuff.
This thread reminds me of Rich Burlew's awesome reinterpretation of a classic Monty Python sketch
No way, this thread is super-deadly serious.