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A quarterstaff (plural quarterstaffs or quarterstaves), also short staff or simply staff is a traditional European polearm, which was especially prominent in England during the Early Modern period. The term is generally accepted to refer to a shaft of hardwood from 6 to 9 feet (1.8 to 2.7 m) long, sometimes with a metal tip, ferrule , or spike ...
Three-section staff. The three-section staff, three-part staff, triple staff, originally sanjiegun (Chinese: 三節棍; pinyin: sānjiégùn; Jyutping: saam1 zit3 gwan3) or sansetsukon (Japanese: さんせつこん), three-section whip, originally sanjiebian (Chinese: 三節鞭; pinyin: sānjiébiān; Jyutping: saam1 zit3 bin1), is a Chinese flail weapon that consists of three wooden or metal ...
A 19th-century drawing of Sun Wukong featuring his staff. Ruyi Jingu Bang (Chinese: 如意金箍棒; pinyin: Rúyì Jīngū Bàng; Wade–Giles: Ju 2-yi 4 Chin 1-ku 1-pang 4), or simply Ruyi Bang or Jingu Bang, is the poetic name of a magical staff wielded by the immortal monkey Sun Wukong in the 16th-century classic Chinese novel Journey to the West.
A flail-like iron staff (left) in military compendium Wujing Zongyao Schematic representation of the three main Chinese martial arts staffs. The gun is fashioned with one thick end as the base and a thinner end near the tip, and is cut to be about the same height as the user or 6 foot.
Staff weapons of Japan (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Stick and staff weapons" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Quarterstaff; S ...
Andrew Stretch, for TechRaptor, commented that while there are quality of life improvements in the design changes, the book seems aimed at newcomers and not towards people with "an expansive 5e library". He highlighted that monster stat blocks have been reordered based on "action economy"; creatures with spellcasting have the biggest stat block ...
In August 2024, Lin Codega of Rascal explained that "Wizards of the Coast has been trying to avoid at all costs" an edition war by attempting to maintain the game as 5th Edition with marketing that focuses on how the changes will be a backwards compatible update and not a new edition of Dungeons & Dragons. [75]
Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth is an interactive fiction role-playing video game developed by Scott Schmitz and Ken Updike and released by Infocom for Macintosh in 1988. The game features a text parser , graphics, a dynamically updated map, and a graphical interface that incorporates Mac OS hierarchical menus .