confusion about hardness of weapons - what is hafted??

[Ironballs]

According to the weapons hardness table, I don't understand the difference between the various hafted\metal-hafted\not hefted items:

Weapon or Shield Hardness1 Hit Points2, 3
Light blade 10 2
Light metal-hafted weapon 10 10
Light hafted weapon 5 2

I mean, a normal metal short sword - as listed in the weapons list belongs to which category ?

can someone give weapon example for each of the categories ?

thanks!

[SwnyNerdgasm]

Ironballs wrote:

According to the weapons hardness table, I don't understand the difference between the various hafted\metal-hafted\not hefted items:

Weapon or Shield Hardness1 Hit Points2, 3
Light blade 10 2
Light metal-hafted weapon 10 10
Light hafted weapon 5 2

I mean, a normal metal short sword - as listed in the weapons list belongs to which category ?

can someone give weapon example for each of the categories ?

thanks!

A hafted weapon would be something like a spear, morningstar, or scythe, ie, something with a metal head attached to a wood area, where as a metal-hafted weapon would be the same thing just the wood area is made of metal. Which is for some reason the way I always envision Halberds.

[Ironballs]

thanks, that helps clear thing up.

however, now something seemed wierd:
according to that, an all metal sickle (or Kama) has 10 HP
while an all metal short sword has only 2....

I can't really see that much a difference between the weapon - why would one would have 5 time more HP then the other...?

[Drejk]

Kama is made of short blade on wooden handle so it is light hafted weapon with hardness 5 and 2 hp. The same applies to sickles. They are usually made with wooden handle. Even if it would be made whole of metal it still would be bladed weapon - by it's very definition sickle is (usually slightly curved) blade on a short handle. Light metal hafted weapon refers to light mace.