Weapon Speeds

Characters armed with weapons modify their base initiative with their weapon speed. All weapons are assigned a speed rating of fast, average, slow, or very slow. When the character makes an attack, his action phase is his base initiative or weapon speed, whichever is later. A fast human armed with a two-handed sword, a slow weapon, attacks in the slow phase of the round. The base initiatives of magical weapons are modified as follows:

Magical Bonus	Base Initiative Modifier
+1	none
+2 or +3	one phase
+4 or more	two phases

Thus, a human wielding a two-handed sword +2 gains a one-phase modifier, attacking in the average phase rather than the slow phase.

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