Impaler of thorns - A spear identity crisis


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I've done my searching duties and yes this question has been answered many times. However, the answer is never the same so i ask:

Is the impaler of thorns (Xanesha's death stick) a spear, a longspear or a large sized spear. My searches found all three as answers to my question.

I'm guessing "Large size spear" is out cause Lamia Matriarchs where given the undersized weapon trait.

Spear seems to makes more sense than longspear since longspear is a reach weapon and fighting on the shadow clock with a longspear would be quite awkward.

Thanks


I don't have the book to hand, but I remember it as a Large Sized Spear.

I had this as I had both Xanesha (and Lucretia) being Medium sized when appearing as women, and large when they got the tails out (i.e. they rose up on their tails)

This gave her reach, which was fine with my group as they first took on Xanesha at Fort Rannick and eventually defeated her in Jorgenfist

Liberty's Edge

It's a Spear spear (1d8, no reach) but in 3.5 without undersized weapon, that made it a large Spear which acts like a longspear as far as reach goes.

Converted to Pathfinder, it's a 1d8, no-reach weapon or if you want reach, it's a longspear.

I made mine a Medium-sized Halberd that does nonlethal damage by default because I wanted my long-anticipated TPK to end in PC prisoners/no-wisdom charm zombies.

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I look at it a totally different way: it doesn't matter what the official answer is. Figure out what makes sense for that battle, and figure out what sort of treasure you want your PCs to have afterwards.

I think giving it reach is probably too powerful for an already powerful fight. And large-size takes away its ability to be used effectively be a PC. So therefore, if I were GMing, I'd make it a vanilla spear.

*shrug* or whatever polearm my party's fighter happened to specialize in. Why not hand out candy?

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Greycloak of Bowness wrote:

It's a Spear spear (1d8, no reach) but in 3.5 without undersized weapon, that made it a large Spear which acts like a longspear as far as reach goes.

Converted to Pathfinder, it's a 1d8, no-reach weapon or if you want reach, it's a longspear.

This.


Thanks guys. A good old spear it is.

James Jacob also just confirmed this in his preview thread

http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/adventurePa th/runelords/riseOfTheRunelordsHardcoverStealthPreview

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