Simple Weapon

Simple Melee Weapons

Simple melee weapons are either tools from common trades, like woodworking, smithing or cooking, or weapons crafted for hunting, like spears. Additionally, tools repurposed as weapons also fall under the simple category, like warscythes or swordstaffs.

Simple Axes

Simple Axes are axes primarily used for woodworking, felling trees and butchery. Examples include Handaxes, Felling Axes, Broad Axes, Hatchets.

Damage Types	Cleaving or Splitting
Range	Melee
Maneuvers	Goading Attack, Menacing Attack, Tripping Attack
2h Maneuvers	Power Attack, Pushing Attack

Simple Blades

Simple Blades are blades primarily used for farming, skinning and cooking. Examples include Scythes, Sickles, Knives, Machetes

Damage Types	Slashing, Cleaving, Piercing
Range	Melee
Maneuvers	Distracting Strike, Precise Attack, Feinting Attack
2h Maneuvers	Tripping Attack, Sweeping Attack

Simple Bludgeons

Simple Bludgeons are tools usually used for carpentry, masonry and hunting. Examples include Hammers, Sledgehammers, Clubs. Also includes equipment for mining or climbing, like Pickaxes and Ice-picks.

Damage Types	Bludgeoning or Splitting
Range	Melee
Maneuvers	Goading Attack, Menacing Attack, Power Attack
2h Maneuvers	Pushing Attack, Tripping Attack

Simple Spears

Simple Spears includes farming tools and fishing tools, or simple weapons for hunting. Examples include Tridents and Hunting Spears.

Simple spears can only be of the versatile size or smaller. Two-Handed or great sizes spears must instead be polearms.

Damage Types	Piercing or Splitting
Range	Melee, Thrown
Maneuvers	Distracting Strike, Feinting Attack, Lunging Attack
2h Maneuvers	Maneuvering Attack, Tripping Attack

Simple Polearms

Simple Polearm examples includes most improvisational weaponry made from farming tools, or simple weapons like longer spears. Examples include Warscythes, Pitchforks, Quarterstaffs and Swordstaffs.

Polearms must always be great sized weapons.

Damage Types	Bludgeoning plus the Damage Types from one simple melee weapon category of your choice.
Range	Melee
2h Maneuvers	Pushing Attack, Brace, plus the maneuvers of the chosen weapon category.