Pike
A very long spear, mostly a shaft of ash.
| Worn | Both hands |
| Weight | 5 kg, whatever its tier |
| Sold by | The weaponsmith |
| Price | crude 1 silver 8 copper, poor 6 silver, common 12 silver, fine 36 silver, masterwork 1 gold 20 silver |
| Damage | 1.1 |
| Reach | 2.6 m more than a sword |
| Wind-up | 0.35 s slower |
It strikes only with its point: a side blow is half a blow. Set and facing a charge, it braces 2.55 m further out than a spear. Held in both hands, it leaves no hand for a shield, which stays slung on the back and guards nothing. Swung sideways in a press, it snags on a tree, a wall or a man of its own side within half a metre of its arc: the blow lands on nobody and takes half a second more to free. Overheads and thrusts never snag. A miss leaves its man 0.75 s more to recover. A crude weapon hits 0.6 times as hard as a common one, a poor one 0.75, a fine one 1.25 and a masterwork 1.4.
Made from
Section titled “Made from”A common piece takes 6 kg of timber, 0.5 kg of iron. A crude one takes 0.6 of that, a poor one three quarters, a fine one half again and a masterwork twice. Traders buy what they lack from the town’s market, so a town with no iron soon has none to sell.