That for all intents and purposes a cane would be considered a mace here. Short, blunt object used in one hand = mace. Long, blunt object used with two hands = staff. Or at least that is how I would interpret it.

It may be a matter of weight. I've seen stick fighting before where the person uses two half-staffs that are each approx. 2ft long. Not sure if we need another weapon spec though, and the way I'm envisioning it would be fairly similar to dagger. Generally poor defense, easily parried, some sort of auto-attack like concealed, maybe some something like flurry but with more {and much weaker} hits, etc.

All of the specialization skills with staves (and Pugil) assume two-handed use. If an area author put a weapon like the original author's post, I'd tell them to make them a pair of one-hnaded maces.

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