{"id":227,"date":"2008-08-22T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/?p=227"},"modified":"2014-11-19T21:39:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T21:39:21","slug":"lance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"lance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my only complaints about 4th edition Dungeons &amp; Dragons is the limited selection of weapons and armors.   I do like the  improving armors  with the higher tiers.  But as a fantasy and history buff, it just doesn&#8217;t feel like D&amp;D unless there are knights in shining armor.  And they just seem silly without their lances.  So I&#8217;ve written up statistics here for lances, balanced 4th edition style, and written to present the weapon in a fresh way that creates interesting tactical possibilities.<br \/>Lances can only be used effectively from a mount&#8217;s back when it moves, and they are somewhat clumsy, but they are very powerful due to the momentum from using them on a moving mount.  So with much fanfare, I present &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Lance<\/span>&#8220;!<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/wp-content\/uploads\/medieval-knights-jousting-1-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237379527706374626\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>This weapon resembles in many ways a longspear, and can only be used to attack from the back of a mount.  It may also only be used to attack while charging or immediately following a move of at least 3 squares.  It has a heavy counterweight on the butt that balances the weapon and allows it to be used with only one hand.  The weapon is a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">one-handed martial<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">spear type<\/span>, has a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">proficiency bonus of +1<\/span>, deals <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1d12+1 points of damage<\/span> and has <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">reach 2<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my only complaints about 4th edition Dungeons &amp; Dragons is the limited selection of weapons and armors. I do like the improving armors with the higher tiers. But as a fantasy and history buff, it just doesn&#8217;t feel like D&amp;D unless there are knights in shining armor. And they just seem silly without their lances. So I&#8217;ve written up statistics here for lances, balanced 4th edition style, and written to present the weapon in a fresh way that creates interesting tactical possibilities.Lances can only be used effectively from a mount&#8217;s back when it moves, and they are somewhat clumsy, but they are very powerful due to the momentum from using them on a moving mount. So with much fanfare, I present &#8220;The Lance&#8220;!This weapon resembles in many ways a longspear, and can only be used to attack from the back of a mount. It may also only be used to attack while charging or immediately following a move of at least 3 squares. It has a heavy counterweight on the butt that balances the weapon and allows it to be used with only one hand. The weapon is a one-handed martial spear type, has a proficiency bonus of +1, deals 1d12+1 points of damage and has reach 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4th-edition","tag-mundane-weapon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}