If a Medium character were wielding a Large reach weapon, such as a large guisarme (character has the oversized limbs variant tiefling feature from Bastards of Erebus) what would his reach be?
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I really dislike the rule that a reach weapon of appropriate size doubles your reach. This illustrates one of the reasons why. By RAW, the Large weapon doubles your Medium character's reach. He therefore has a reach of 10 feet.
If weapons don't magically lengthen and shorten according to who holds them, but instead a reach weapon adds the reach of a Tall creature of its size to that of anyone who can wield it, his roughly 20 foot long Large polearm would give him a reach of 15 feet, but that would be a house rule.
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If a Medium character were wielding a Large reach weapon, such as a large guisarme (character has the oversized limbs variant tiefling feature from Bastards of Erebus) what would his reach be?
By RAW, 10 ft.
Conversely, if a medium character were wielding a small reach weapon in one hand, such as a small long-spear, he would still have a reach of 10 ft.
Grumble grumble. I think I'll grant the character in question 15 feet of reach. It makes sense to me and I don't think it's overpowered at all, considering he has to switch from reach to non-reach (Polearm Master variant fighter) and take a -4 penalty for it.
Thanks for the responses.
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Grumble grumble. I think I'll grant the character in question 15 feet of reach. It makes sense to me and I don't think it's overpowered at all, considering he has to switch from reach to non-reach (Polearm Master variant fighter) and take a -4 penalty for it.
Thanks for the responses.
Per RAW, a medium creature wielding a large one-handed weapon wields it as a 2-handed weapon, taking the inappropriate size penalty (-2) to attack rolls.
A medium creature cannot wield a large two-handed weapon "If a weapon's designation would be changed to something other than light, one-handed, or two-handed by this alteration, the creature can't wield the weapon at all.".
There is a 3.5 feat (monkey grip) that would allow the medium character to wield a large two-handed weapon, but I'm unaware of any Pathfinder feat that allows this.
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If a Medium character were wielding a Large reach weapon, such as a large guisarme (character has the oversized limbs variant tiefling feature from Bastards of Erebus) what would his reach be?
Reach weapons don't care about how big they are, they double your natural reach. There used to be a rule in 3.5 that you couldn't use a reach weapon of the wrong size and maintain reach, but I couldn't find that rule today in PF.
So double Medium (wielding a Large Reach weapon) is attacking at 10', which is what everyone in this thread has said already. I assume by your "I'm going to go with 15'" you are the DM. In which case you can always rule 0 it to whatever you wish.