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McAllister · 07-10-2016, 12:53 AM

See, this is an immersion issue for me. The idea that the best way for someone with ST 12+ to use DWA with the Staff skill is to use two different jo to do it... seems wrong.

I have, since posting this, found in the Qian Kun Ri Yue Dao's description an option to DWA with it, against two adjacent foes. LTC2, p. 18, has a similar entry for holding the middle of a staff and thrusting it into two people at once. This makes some sense, but also isn't what I'm looking for, and unrelatedly I'm really not fond of rules showing up in weapon entries that would make sense when applied to other weapons.

So the forum is telling me that the only benefit to striking with the other end of a quarterstaff is not having to buy Multi-Attack on one level of Extra Attack, and that's all that's reasonable? Clearly not what I wanted to hear, but I guess I'll have to deal with it.

07-10-2016, 12:53 AM	#4
McAllister Join Date: Jun 2013	Re: Staff DWA See, this is an immersion issue for me. The idea that the best way for someone with ST 12+ to use DWA with the Staff skill is to use two different jo to do it... seems wrong. I have, since posting this, found in the Qian Kun Ri Yue Dao's description an option to DWA with it, against two adjacent foes. LTC2, p. 18, has a similar entry for holding the middle of a staff and thrusting it into two people at once. This makes some sense, but also isn't what I'm looking for, and unrelatedly I'm really not fond of rules showing up in weapon entries that would make sense when applied to other weapons. So the forum is telling me that the only benefit to striking with the other end of a quarterstaff is not having to buy Multi-Attack on one level of Extra Attack, and that's all that's reasonable? Clearly not what I wanted to hear, but I guess I'll have to deal with it.