Similar weapon use

[Scott Adams]

At 08:18 PM 5/18/01 -0700, you wrote: 
>
> This was something that crossed my mind last night and I wanted to see what
> everyone else thought about it.
>  
> As it is stated when selecting a weapon skill you go by the category, Mace,
> Heavy Sword, etc., and select a particular weapon from the category. 
Such as
> taking hammer from the mace category or broad sword from the heavy sword
> category.
>  
> Which brings me to my question.  How do GM's and players out there handle
> situations when your hero(s) are fighting the good fight, and suddenly they
> do not have acess to their favorite weapon, but have one from the same
> category as their main one?
>  
> Like I said it just came to me last night:).  Just in case I missed
> something, I am still learning things.


When you don't know Great Sword and pick one up on the floor you use it at EL0
and gain
experience with it through success or failure as normal.