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 and 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.
Damage Types Piercing or Splitting Range Melee, Thrown Maneuvers Distracting Strike, Feinting Attack, Lunging Attack 2h Maneuvers Maneuvering Attack, Tripping Attack
Simple spears can only be of the versatile size or smaller. Two-Handed or great sizes spears must instead be polearms. 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.