Martial Arts: Polearm/Quarterstaff/Weapon Adaptation

[Tomsdad]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

You know that Weapon Adaptation allows, say, wielding a weapon in Fencing mode even though the weapon doesn't have a 0F parry in its line, right?
When a benefit or drawback is part of the skill and not part of the weapon, then Weapon Adaptation grants the benefit by wielding a weapon with the chosen skill.

Yes but you can't double up on 0F you can double up on +2 so it's not an equal comparison.

Also there is no such thing as a fencing skill (unlike the staff skill) there are melee skills that include fencing weapons.

moreover weapon adaption is not what we're talking about here, we're talking weapons that appear under two skill listings. Which is is kind of inbuilt weapon adaption but with specific stats for each skill, and in general the specific trumps the general.

However we can test the point easily. Staff skill has several weapons with +2 in their listed parry characteristic, and some with 0 or 0U, do you add a blanket +2 to parry on top of all of them?