Tight Groups
A Tight Weapons Group consists of a set of weapons that are very similar in the way they are wielded. It costs two Weapon Proficiency Slots to become proficient in an entire tight group. After paying those two slots, the character will know how to use every weapon in that group without the usual –2 penalty for unfamiliarity (that –2 is for Warriors; with other classes, the penalty is more severe, as described on page 52 in the Player's Handbook). Following are several examples of Tight Groups. Any weapon marked with an asterisk (*) is a weapon described in The Complete Fighter's Handbook, in the Equipment chapter.
Axes: Battle axe, Hand/throwing axe.
Bows: Composite long bow*, Composite short bow*, Daikyu*, Long bow, Short bow.
Clubbing Weapons: Belaying pin*, Club, Footman's mace, Horseman's mace, Morning star, Warhammer.
Crossbows: Hand crossbow, Heavy crossbow, Light crossbow.
Fencing Blades: Dagger/Dirk, Knife/Stiletto*, Main-gauche*, Rapier*, Sabre*.
Flails: Footman's flail, Horseman's flail.
Lances: Heavy horse lance, Light horse lance, Jousting lance, Medium horse lance.
Long Blades: Bastard sword, Katana*, Long sword, Scimitar, Two-handed sword.
Medium Blades: Cutlass*, Khopesh, Wakizashi*.
Picks: Footman's pick, Horseman's pick.
Polearms: Awl pike, Bardiche, Bec de corbin, Bill-guisarme, Fauchard, Fauchard-fork, Glaive, Glaive-guisarme, Guisarme, Guisarme-voulge, Halberd, Hook fauchard, Lucern hammer, Mancatcher, Military fork, Naginata*, Partisan, Ranseur, Spetum, Tetsubo*, Voulge.
Short Blades: Dagger/Dirk, Knife/Stiletto*, Main-gauche*, Short sword/Drusus*.
Slings: Sling, Staff Sling.
Spears: Harpoon, Javelin, Long Spear*, Spear, Trident
Whips: Scourge, Whip.
Again, you'll see some overlap between the certainr groups.
These groups may be used to calculate weapon similarity for determining whether a character receives the full or partial attack penalty for using an unfamiliar weapon.
Those marked with an asterisk are weapons not generally associated with the Isles. However, foreign characters visiting the Isles may possibly introduce them.
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