Item: Dancer's Spear
Traditionally a favored weapon in Molthune for settling disputes between military leaders, the dancer's spear has seen a recent resurgence in popularity in the neighboring kingdom of Nirmathas, largely due to its effectiveness at striking down attacking skeletons and other undead from a relatively safe distance. A dancer's spear has a 7-foot-long wooden haft capped with a triangular metal blade at one end, counterbalanced on the other end with a reinforced metal sleeve that, in a pinch, can be used as an effective striking surface.
Trait Effects
Backswing: You can use the momentum from a missed attack with this weapon to lead into your next attack. After missing with this weapon on your turn, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to your next attack with this weapon before the end of your turn.
Finesse: You can use your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier on attack rolls using this melee weapon. You still calculate damage using Strength.
Reach: This weapon can be used to attack enemies up to 10 feet away instead of only adjacent enemies. For creatures with reach, the weapon increases their reach by 5 feet.
Sweep: This weapon makes wide swinging attacks. When you attack with this weapon, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to your attack roll if you already attempted to attack a different target this turn using this weapon.
Critical Specialisation Effects
Certain effects can grant you benefits when you make a Strike with certain weapons and get a critical success. This is called a critical specialisation effect. The exact effect depends on which weapon group your weapon belongs to, as listed below. You can always decide not to add the critical specialisation effect of your weapon.
Spear: The weapon pierces the target, weakening its attacks. The target is clumsy 1 until the start of your next turn.
Related Items
| Name | Level | Rarity | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grounding Spike | 10 | Uncommon | 1d6 |
| Elven Branched Spear | - | Uncommon | 1d6 |
| Bladed Scarf | - | Uncommon | 1d6 |
| Breaching Pike | - | Uncommon | 1d6 |
| Dueling Spear | - | Uncommon | 1d8 |
| Filcher's Fork | - | Uncommon | 1d4 |
| Gill Hook | - | Uncommon | 1d10 |
| Injection Spear | - | Uncommon | 1d8 |
| Lance | - | Common | 1d8 |
| Alicorn Lance | 5 | Uncommon | 1d8 |
| Cavalry Commander's Lance | 6 | Uncommon | 1d8 |
| Lance of Sun's Radiance | 11 | Rare | 1d8 |
| Knight Captain's Lance | 13 | Uncommon | 1d8 |
| Radiant Lance | 15 | Uncommon | 1d8 |
| Bec de Corbin | - | Common | 1d8 |
| Fauchard | - | Common | 1d8 |
| Hand Adze | - | Common | 1d4 |
| Kusarigama | - | Uncommon | 1d8 |
| Liuyedao | - | Common | 1d4 |
| Macuahuitl | - | Uncommon | 1d8 |