Conflicting FAQ (Two-Handed in One Hand)

[707]

I was wondering how to handle the damage of a Two-Handed weapon wielded in one hand. So, I decided to take a look at the FAQ. However, there seem to be two FAQs addressing this question, and they appear to be conflicting.

https://paizo.com/paizo/faq/v5748nruor1fm#v5748eaic9qno
https://paizo.com/paizo/faq/v5748nruor1fm#v5748eaic9quw

Did I miss some important difference between the two?

[I grok do u]

1)Difference is the context of the examples.

The "get two-handed" bonus is looking at a lance while mounted, and should also apply to a feat like shield brace. As a totally made up justification to envision why it works: these are cases where you get the benefit of two-handing it because the weapon is getting support from the mount or shield.

In the "treat as one-handed" category would be feats like exotic proficiency in bastard swords or katanas, which actually change the size category of the swords to one-handed for all purposes. Also abilities like titan mauler's jotungrip would have the blade treated as one-handed, although this is explicit in the description anyway. Of course, the character can get power attack bonus by simply two-handing it again.

Some feats have more controversial interactions (bladed brush seems to be an example there)

So, regarding your question, what specific feat/ability and weapon interaction are you looking at?

2)I suppose a GM could decide the second FAQ was posted a couple months later, and therefore supercedes the first.

[707]

That would make a lot of sense.

FAQ question wrote:

Weapons, Two-Handed in One Hand: When a feat or other special ability says to treat a weapon that is normally wielded in two hands as a one handed weapon, does it get treated as one or two handed weapon for the purposes of how to apply the Strength modifier or the Power Attack feat?

This FAQ might just refer to weapons like bastard sword. That is actually a one handed weapon. They might just call it "normally" when wielding it with martial weapon proficiency instead of exotic weapon proficiency.

This is a stretch however, since the answer seems to assume the opposite:

FAQ answer wrote:

If you're wielding it in one hand (even if it is normally a two-handed weapon), treat it as a one-handed weapon for the purpose of how much Strength to apply, the Power Attack damage bonus, and so on.

However this might be just bad wording. So for now I assume one FAQ talkes about one-handed weapons that can be used two-handed with different proficiency while the other talkes about two-handed weapons used in one hand.

I was actually thinking about your two examples. Lance while mounted and shield brace while not mounted.