And you can pair it with Dueling fighting style, a shield and PAM feat to have better AC and DPR than all other weapons styled (TWF, GWF, etc). At least as long you don’t factor in GWM feat.
And you can pair it with Dueling fighting style, a shield and PAM feat to have better AC and DPR than all other weapons styled (TWF, GWF, etc). At least as long you don’t factor in GWM feat.
The twf and gwf styles are next-level bad. I'm fairly certain it's outright impossible to come up with a build where they're a better choice than some other style.
The rules of the game say they can, and D&D is a game, not an accurate combat simulator. You can always nitpick the way dozens of items work in game compared to how they might work in reality; but reality is not concerned with balanced play.
Whether or not someone can do it in real life is immaterial.
Lol all these examples are stupid. Even the vid showing how to fight one handed has people using it with two hands.
Comparing a quarterstaff to a spear and suggesting that they can be used the same way is hilariously absurd.
It is far from absurd - it is in fact pretty much definitively accurate.
Both are poles - one has a point for stabbing, the other is blunt.
typical use of both (without a shield) is to use a mix of one-hand and two-hand grips depending on the reach and style of attack and defence you wish in the moment. A spear's shaft is used to block and push, it's but to sweep and prod, it's point to stab and cut. A staff is used exactly the same way, except it has no functional way to cut and it's stab is fairly blunt - although no so blunt that it won't put your eye out.
I can only assume from your rude and highly inaccurate response that you actually have no idea what you're talking about.
Lol all these examples are stupid. Even the vid showing how to fight one handed has people using it with two hands.
Comparing a quarterstaff to a spear and suggesting that they can be used the same way is hilariously absurd.
Surely that's the point of the Versatile label: It can be used both one- and two-handed. Two handed use is more effective, as demonstrated by the larger damage die.
As for the comparison between a staff and spear: A spear is a staff with a pointy end. Take the pointy end off the spear, and you have a staff. Add a pointy end to the staff, you have a spear.
Anyone else find this weird? Can you even use a quarterstaff one handed?
No and yes.
Evidence?
If you can use a spear one-handed why can't you use a quarterstaff one-handed.
lop the head off a spear and you have a quarterstaff essentially
the style of use and combat technique would change but D&D doesn't granulate that far
I have hit things with a broom handle 1 handed.
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** oops, I was thinking spear. But it's pretty same same.
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You can use it one handed since the quartterstaff is not a two-handed weapon in 5E
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And you can pair it with Dueling fighting style, a shield and PAM feat to have better AC and DPR than all other weapons styled (TWF, GWF, etc). At least as long you don’t factor in GWM feat.
The twf and gwf styles are next-level bad. I'm fairly certain it's outright impossible to come up with a build where they're a better choice than some other style.
Lol all these examples are stupid. Even the vid showing how to fight one handed has people using it with two hands.
Comparing a quarterstaff to a spear and suggesting that they can be used the same way is hilariously absurd.
I guarantee you the real reason is to ensure wizards can fight like Gandalf.
If you don't like it, change it for your game. Stop trying to convince others to change it. Their games don't matter to you.
Most of us don't give a lick about realism, because we're playing a fantasy game.
The rules of the game say they can, and D&D is a game, not an accurate combat simulator. You can always nitpick the way dozens of items work in game compared to how they might work in reality; but reality is not concerned with balanced play.
Whether or not someone can do it in real life is immaterial.
I get the impression that the 5E "quarterstaff" is a broom handle. It is light, thin, made entirely of wood, able to be used effectively one-handed.
The thick wooden staff shod with iron and wrapped with leather (the gab-wacker, for example) doesn't seem to be in this game.
Similarly, what 5E calles a "spear" seems closer to an assegai than a pilum.
Yes, just like the rules say, you can use it with one or two hands.
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"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
It is far from absurd - it is in fact pretty much definitively accurate.
Both are poles - one has a point for stabbing, the other is blunt.
typical use of both (without a shield) is to use a mix of one-hand and two-hand grips depending on the reach and style of attack and defence you wish in the moment. A spear's shaft is used to block and push, it's but to sweep and prod, it's point to stab and cut. A staff is used exactly the same way, except it has no functional way to cut and it's stab is fairly blunt - although no so blunt that it won't put your eye out.
I can only assume from your rude and highly inaccurate response that you actually have no idea what you're talking about.
Surely that's the point of the Versatile label: It can be used both one- and two-handed. Two handed use is more effective, as demonstrated by the larger damage die.
As for the comparison between a staff and spear: A spear is a staff with a pointy end. Take the pointy end off the spear, and you have a staff. Add a pointy end to the staff, you have a spear.
Yeah, the pilum would be a javelin in D&D rules.