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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