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.

Simple Ranged Weapons

Simple ranged weapons are weapons and tools that are used at range and primarily used for hunting and fishing.

• Simple ranged weapons always requires both hands to reload, regardless of size.
• Simple ranged weapons can not be of the versatile weapon size.

Draw Strength

Draw strength is the amount of strength a ranged weapon requires and maintains to be shot. This determines both the possible size of a ranged weapon, as well as the distance it can travel when shot.

Simple Drawn

Simple drawn weapons are ranged weapons that use the wielders strength in each shot. These are mainly weapons used for hunting, where examples include Slings, Hunting Bows, Self Bows, Simple Bows.

Simple drawn ranged weapons have a strength requirement equal to its Draw Strength. This requirement explains the draw weight of the weapon and the required strength of the wielder to draw and hold it while shooting.

Damage Types	Ammunition Dependent
Range	Ranged
Maneuvers	Distracting Strike, Precise Attack, Rapid Fire
2h Maneuvers	Menacing Attack, Point Blank

Simple Ranged Weapon - Draw Strengths

Size	Mod	Draw Strength	Range	Examples
Light	0.5x	7	25 ft	Small Sling
		8	30 ft
		9	40 ft
		10	50 ft

	7

8 9 10 25 ft. 30 ft. 40 ft. 50 ft. Small Sling

One-handed / 1x 9 10 11 12 80 ft. 100 ft. 125 ft. 150 ft. Large Sling

Two-handed / 1.5x 11 12 13 14 180 ft. 225 ft. 270 ft. 320 ft.

Simple Bow

Great / 2x 13 14 15 16 360 ft. 430 ft. 520 ft. 620 ft. Hunting Bow

Simple Loaded

Simple loaded weapons are ranged weapons that unlike all the other simple weapons, are nearly always made for warfare. Because of the simplicity of crossbows and the lack or need of expertise, almost any fool can pick one up to shoot. Simple loaded weapons are almost exclusively crossbows of different variations and sizes.

   Simple loaded weapons do not have disadvantage while prone or within 5 ft. of an enemy.
   Simple loaded weapons are treated as if they were a martial weapon when calculating for damage and range.
   Attacking with a simple loaded weapon requires loading it beforehand.

Damage Types Ammunition Dependent Range Ranged. Maneuvers Maneuvering Attack, Precise Attack, Point Blank 2h Maneuvers Snipe, Sneak Attack