Weapon Group: Spears

Pictured here: 1) javelin, 2) harpoon, 3) pilum, 4) shortspear or máo, 5) lance, 6) planson or wolf-tooth club, 7) trident or tiger fork, 8) boar spear or jūmonji yari, 9) spear or qiāng, 10) weighted spear, 11) longspear or tán, 12) the leather strap for an amentum, and 13) siangham.

The bedrock of weaponry in the Empire, almost every household in Armant has at least one spear hung visibly in a position of importance.  The weapon occupies an almost religious place in the mind of the people, with the city itself built upon the Tree of the Spear; they are often seen as a symbol of the Middle Throne, personifying both the reach and the power of the Empire.  More practically, it is a weapon that even novices can learn with relative ease, while a skilled spear wielder is a force to be reckoned with on any battlefield.

AMENTUM
Damage: 1d6, x2
Range: 50 ft
Type: Ranged martial piercing
Special: Performance
Description: An amentum is a long leather thong that attaches to a standard javelin. Before throwing, the amentum is wound about the javelin’s shaft. You then throw the javelin while gripping the amentum, imparting spin on the weapon and greatly improving its range. Attaching an amentum to a javelin is a move action, and winding it is a full-round action. Javelins can be stored with amenta already wound about them. A javelin wound with an amentum is considered a martial weapon.
Cost: —
Weight: 1 lb

BOAR SPEAR [JŪMONJI YARI]
Damage: 1d8, x2
Type: Two-handed simple piercing
Special: Brace
Description: This spear has a metal crossbar to protect the wielder against onrushing attackers. If they ready a boar spear against a charge and the attack hits, the wielder gain a +2 shield bonus to their AC against that creature until their next turn.
Cost: 5 gp
Weight: 8 lbs

BOARDING PIKE
Damage: 1d8, x3
Type: Two-handed simple piercing
Special: Brace, reach
Description: A boarding pike is an 8-foot-long pole topped with a foot-long tapered metal tip. Boarding pikes look much like longspears, but the metal pike is designed to flow into the wooden haft, leaving no grooves, collars, or spikes that could trap salt water and cause rust. Boarding pikes are mainly used defensively, to repel boarding actions. The pikes are kept in brackets around the mast, so sailors can quickly grab pikes and brace them against the gunwale to repel boarders.
Cost: 8 gp
Weight: 9 lbs

HARPOON
Damage: 1d8, x3
Range: 10 ft
Type: Two-handed exotic piercing
Special: Grapple
Description: A harpoon is a barbed spear with an attached rope 50 feet or less in length. Most harpoons have metal points, but some use ivory or are made entirely of wood. A harpoon’s weight includes 10 pounds for the weight of 50 feet of hemp rope. The weight can be reduced by using shorter or lighter rope. If you are not proficient with a harpoon, treat it like a normal spear.
Cost: 5 gp
Weight: 16 lbs

JAVELIN
Damage: 1d6, x2
Range: 30 ft
Type: Ranged simple piercing
Description: A javelin is a thin throwing spear.  Since it is not designed for melee, you are treated as nonproficient with it and take a -4 penalty on attack rolls if you use a javelin as a melee weapon.
Cost: 1 gp
Weight: 2 lbs

LANCE
Damage: 1d8, x3
Type: Two-handed martial piercing
Special: Reach
Description: A lance deals double damage when used from the back of a charging mount. While mounted, you can wield a lance with one hand.
Cost: 10 gp
Weight: 10 lbs

LONGSPEAR [TÁN]
Damage: 1d8, x3
Type: Two-handed simple piercing
Special: Brace, reach
Description: A longspear is about 8 feet in length.
Cost: 5 gp
Weight: 9 lbs

PILUM
Damage: 1d8, x2
Range 20 ft
Type: Ranged martial piercing
Description: The tip of this heavy javelin is designed to break off and embed itself into a shield once it hits. Like ammunition, a thrown pilum that hits its target is destroyed. If you hit a shieldbearing opponent with a pilum, he loses the AC bonuses from that shield until he takes a standard action to pry the remnants of the pilum from his shield.
Cost: 5 gp
Weight: 4 lbs

PLANSON [WOLF-TOOTH CLUB]
Damage: 1d10, x2
Type: Two-handed martial bludgeoning or piercing
Special: Brace
Description: This 5-foot tapered pole is bound in metal with a narrow metal spike projecting from the top. The planson can be used as a club or as a sturdy, if top-heavy, spear to stop a charge.
Cost: 10 gp
Weight: 10 lbs

SHORTSPEAR [MÁO]
Damage: 1d6, x2
Range: 20 ft
Type: One-handed simple piercing
Description: A shortspear is about 3 feet in length, making it a suitable thrown weapon.
Cost: 1 gp
Weight: 3 lbs

SIANGHAM
Damage: 1d6, x2
Type: Light exotic piercing
Special: Finesse, monk
Description: This weapon is a handheld shaft fitted with a pointed tip for stabbing foes. It resembles a (much sturdier) arrow with a grip designed for melee combat.
Cost: 3 gp
Weight: 1 lb

SPEAR [QIĀNG]
Damage: 1d8, x3
Range: 20 ft
Type: Two-handed simple piercing
Special: Brace
Description: A spear is 5 feet in length and can be thrown.
Cost: 2 gp
Weight: 6 lbs

TRIDENT [TIGER FORK]
Damage: 1d8, x2
Range: 10 ft
Type: One-handed martial piercing
Special: Brace, monk
Description: This weapon consists of a three-pronged metal fork set upon a shaft. It can be wielded much like a spear or a staff, with the wielder grasping the shaft from the center and jabbing with its forked end.
Cost: 15 gp
Weight: 4 lbs

WEIGHTED SPEAR
Damage: 1d8/1d6, x3/x2
Type: Two-handed simple bludgeoning or piercing
Special: Brace, double
Description: This pole has a spear head at one end and a mace head at the other. It can be wielded like a standard spear (though it isn’t balanced for throwing), or it can be used as a double weapon, alternately thrusting and bashing.
Cost: 10 gp
Weight: 8 lbs