Bardiche (3.5e Equipment)

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Bardiche

Martial Two-Handed Melee
Critical:	x3
Range Increment:	—
Type:	Slashing
Hardness:	5

Size

Cost¹

Damage

Weight¹

hp

Fine

*

1d3

*

1

Diminutive

*

1d4

*

1

Tiny

*

1d6

*

2

Small

9

1d8

6

5

Medium

9

1d10

12

10

Large

18

2d8

24

20

Huge

*

3d6

*

40

Gargantuan

*

4d8

*

80

Colossal

*

6d8

*

160

The SRD only gives a means to determine costs and weights of weapons for Large and Small versions based on the Medium weapons. Any other supplied values are the author's best determination.

A bardiche is a type of glaive polearm. It has a long, cleaver type blade mounted to a pole. While the blade is long for an axe (usually exceeding 2') the shaft is one of the shortest of all polearms; rarely does it exceed 5' in length. It relies more on the weight of its heavy blade to do the damage than a swing from a long pole.

Historically it was used in the 16th and 17th centuries in Eastern Europe as an evolution of the Danish axe (or "sparth"), along with the Scottish lochaber axe.

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