#three-section staff

Melee weapon, Simple Properties: Finesse, Light (when dual), Reach (when 2-handed), Versatile (Special) Damage: 1d4 (1d8 two-handed) Bludgeoning

Three sticks, each two feet long, connected by chains at the ends.

Special: The Three-Section staff can be used in two ways.

At a range of 5ft it behaves exactly as 2 Clubs used for Two Weapon Fighting. (Two-Weapon Fighting: When you take the Attack action and attack with a Light melee weapon that you’re holding in one hand, you can use a Bonus Action to attack with a different Light melee weapon that you’re holding in the other hand. You don’t add your ability modifier to the damage of the bonus attack, unless that modifier is negative.)

The three-section staff. A really interesting and fun weapon - that cross between a staff and nunchaku makes it a pretty unique one to wield. It’s a weapon that I really don’t spend near enough time with, and need to practice much more.

It takes a little bit of getting used to (and a couple of bruises) but once you get the speed down it spins more or less as smoothly as a staff.

And as a little PSA: If anyone is keen to pick up a three-section staff, bo staff, or any other Chinese/Japanese weapon but, like me, don’t have anywhere local to train - I would strongly recommend heading over to the YouTube channel of Jake Mace and start learning from him.

Unlike many other instructional channels out there, Jake is a lot of fun to watch and learn from. He’s very skilled and really pulls you in to what he’s demonstrating. Most of what I know today comes from watching his videos.