long limbed adds 5 feet to your reach on your turn. A pike is a reach weapon with a 10 foot range just like all the other reach weapons in 5e. therefore on your turn a bugbear has a reach of 15 feet. On other creatures turns their reach is the normal 10 feet
I think the misunderstanding here is that the OP is adding a creatures unarmed strike reach to a weapon reach, which you don't do. For PCs, each mode of attack has 1 reach, and that is 5 ft (for most creatures with non-reach weapons), 10 feet (for most creatures with reach weapons, and bugbears with non-reach weapons on their own turns), or 15 feet (bugbears with reach weapons on their own turns). Some creatures have greater reach due to their size or body type, but no PC standard has reaches other than what I've said.
Weapons typically include the length of your arms in the reach. Weapons with longer reaches are simply longer weapons. But the bugbear has longer arms. So while a bugbear has a reach of 10 ft., and a pike has a reach of 10 ft., a bugbear wielding a pike has a reach of 15 ft.
While y'all ain't wrong, you're also talking about this in slightly sloppy terms that aren't quite RAW. A pike doesn't have a "10 foot reach," it has Reach property. Nor is there a thing called "weapon reach" or "unarmed strike reach" per se. The steps look like:
When wielding a weapon with the Reach property, "This weapon adds 5 feet to your reach when you attack with it, as well as when determining your reach for opportunity attacks with it." See PHB Chapter 5, Equipment, Weapons, Weapon Properties.
For Bugbear characters, "When you make a melee attack on your turn, your reach for it is 5 feet greater than normal."
The operation is 5 (default), +5 on attacks and OA threatened area with Reach weapon, +5 when making melee attacks on your turn as a Bugbear, for up to 15 foot total reach when both conditional modifiers apply.
...a Bugbear has an extra 5ft 10ft total) reach on it's turn. A Pike has 15ft reach.
10ft + 15ft = 25ft reach?
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No. A pike has 10 feet reach. Long limbs make your reach 5 feet greater than normal on your turn. 10+5=15.
long limbed adds 5 feet to your reach on your turn. A pike is a reach weapon with a 10 foot range just like all the other reach weapons in 5e. therefore on your turn a bugbear has a reach of 15 feet. On other creatures turns their reach is the normal 10 feet
I think the misunderstanding here is that the OP is adding a creatures unarmed strike reach to a weapon reach, which you don't do. For PCs, each mode of attack has 1 reach, and that is 5 ft (for most creatures with non-reach weapons), 10 feet (for most creatures with reach weapons, and bugbears with non-reach weapons on their own turns), or 15 feet (bugbears with reach weapons on their own turns). Some creatures have greater reach due to their size or body type, but no PC standard has reaches other than what I've said.
Weapons typically include the length of your arms in the reach. Weapons with longer reaches are simply longer weapons. But the bugbear has longer arms. So while a bugbear has a reach of 10 ft., and a pike has a reach of 10 ft., a bugbear wielding a pike has a reach of 15 ft.
5ft standard reach + 5ft bugbear arms + 5ft pike length = 15ft reach.
While y'all ain't wrong, you're also talking about this in slightly sloppy terms that aren't quite RAW. A pike doesn't have a "10 foot reach," it has Reach property. Nor is there a thing called "weapon reach" or "unarmed strike reach" per se. The steps look like:
The operation is 5 (default), +5 on attacks and OA threatened area with Reach weapon, +5 when making melee attacks on your turn as a Bugbear, for up to 15 foot total reach when both conditional modifiers apply.
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