Weapon skills
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There are nine types of weapons skills:
- Axes - axes
- Bludgeons - clubs, hammers, maces
- Flexible arms - whips
- Long blades - swords
- Piercing arms - spears
- Short blades - daggers, knives
- Talonous arms - claws, fangs
- Missile weapons - bows, crossbows, slings, darts, peashooters
- Pugilism - miscellaneous
These skills represent a character's facility with various type of weapons. Different classes have different maximum proficiencies with different types of arms, e.g., mages are best with short blades and clerics with bludgeons. Proficiency less than 50% with a given weapon type means that damage inflicted is less than "normal," proficiency greater than 50% increases your damage per hit. These skills are automatic: you need not to type anything to invoke them. The exception to this is missile weapons; for these you must use the fire command. Your proficiency will not rise beyond the basic percentage you get after you first practice it until you have reached 6th level.
