Melee Weapons Skill

Melee weapons represents the ability to effectively wield and deal damage with melee weapon. This skill is broken up into slashing, crushing, or piercing weapons. Every purchase of this skill must apply to one weapon subtype, and each subtype ranks up separately.

On melee weapon attacks, your skill in the subtype that applies to the weapon is added to the applicable statistic and weapon base damage to determine the dice pool.

Subtype	Example Weapons
Slashing	Short Sword, Long Sword, Greatsword
Crushing	Club, Mace, Maul, Staff
Piercing	Dagger, Rapier, Spear