Changing Grip


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Rules are pretty clear, that grasping your two-handed weapon with your other hand takes an action.

What about releasing one hand? I'd consider this a "Drop" free action, as you're "dropping" the item from that hand.

Am I missing something here? If it takes an action just to release, this makes combat maneuvers like Trip or Shove useless unless your 2-hander has the trip or shove trait.

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nightpanda2810 wrote:

Rules are pretty clear, that grasping your two-handed weapon with your other hand takes an action.

What about releasing one hand? I'd consider this a "Drop" free action, as you're "dropping" the item from that hand.

Am I missing something here? If it takes an action just to release, this makes combat maneuvers like Trip or Shove useless unless your 2-hander has the trip or shove trait.

Releasing is free.

Looking for relevant page # where it says this...
Edit: unable to find page reference. In fact the guide implies that this would be an action to change your grip, but I believe Mark S. may have stated that releasing is free.


Pathfinder Adventure, Rulebook Subscriber
Gorignak227 wrote:
nightpanda2810 wrote:

Rules are pretty clear, that grasping your two-handed weapon with your other hand takes an action.

What about releasing one hand? I'd consider this a "Drop" free action, as you're "dropping" the item from that hand.

Am I missing something here? If it takes an action just to release, this makes combat maneuvers like Trip or Shove useless unless your 2-hander has the trip or shove trait.

Releasing is free.

Looking for relevant page # where it says this...
Edit: unable to find page reference. In fact the guide implies that this would be an action to change your grip, but I believe Mark S. may have stated that releasing is free.

Yeah, I couldn't find it either. I'm going to move forward with assuming releasing is free until someone says otherwise. Requiring an action on releasing makes about as much sense as not being able to drop 2 items at once, lol.

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