Melee Weapon Training

You gain a bonus to hit with melee weapons.
This bonus is a training bonus.
If you have more than one training bonus which applies to the same roll, use the best one.

Most melee weapons have a reach of 5 ft.
Long melee weapons have a reach of 10 ft., but do less damage.
Light melee weapons are more accurate, but do less damage.
Heavy melee weapons do more damage, but are less accurate and require both hands to use.

Light melee weapons deal 1d4 base weapon damage.
Medium melee weapons deal 1d8 base weapon damage, or 1d10 if wielded with both hands.
Heavy melee weapons deal a whopping 1d12 base weapon damage.
Long melee weapons deal 1d6 base weapon damage, or 1d8 if wielded with both hands.
Heavy Long melee weapons deal 1d10 base weapon damage.
You may use a shield as a melee weapon which deals 1 base weapon damage.

You get a free C grade, 0 effort melee weapon when you take this course.

Weapon Skill:
Your bonus to hit with a weapon represents your skill with that weapon.
You may roll to hit with your melee weapon instead of rolling a test of skill chiefly concerned with using your melee weapon effectively.
Bonuses to hit apply to tests of weapon skill, but bonuses to tests of skill do not.
(ex: You can use your Weapon Skill instead of Expression on a test of skill to show off with your melee weapon.)

Unarmed:
The bonuses from this course do not apply to unarmed attacks, even though unarmed is considered a “melee weapon”.