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* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]:'' The Dwarven Urgrosh, a spear on one end and axe on the other.
** ''[[Dragonlance]]'' Kender weapons tend to provide several attack forms, tool or other utility function and a musical instrument (at least chime or bullroar). Hoopak: rod with a sling and spike at its ends acting as a shortspear, alpenstock, staff, sling staff and slingshot. Chapak: axe with prongs on the back side used as beaked prying bar or, again, slingshot arms, with haft hollowed to use as a blowgun or flute. Hachak: a poleaxe with a spike and hammer/beak on the other end, with shaft midsection detachable and hollowed to store a few darts. Battak: studded club with a spearhead at the end, useable as a sort-of-sling when the spike is removed from its slot. Bollik: bola/flail belt. Polpak: staff with a detachable short sword on the end, saw-toothed on one side. Sithak: shoulder-yoke that's weaponized by attaching blades at both ends and can be strung as a recurved bow shaft. Whippik: whip with a loop at the end making it ready to use as a dart launcher, noose or fishing pole.
** In ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' Tritonstapal hasis tapalthe as theirtraditional weapon of choice. It'sfor aTritons, curvingand (somewhereoccasionally betweenused boomerangby andothers fisherwho hook)learned from them. It's a crystalline piece withcurved handlealmost oninto thehook inside,- with edge on the outside and sharpened ends, the longermain extendinghandle almoston the inside of the curving part and secondary close to the shouldermiddle. It can be wielded much like a tonfa with the long blade fitting along the forearm and beyond muchalmost liketo athe tonfashoulder (for close quarters, (what's with all the tentacled and big-mouthed things down there), as a streamlined balanced "wing" sticking out (for swim-by cuts) balanced by the short blade or invertedreversed long blade forward and steadied with the second handle (for reach). - thusThus the short arm serves as a dagger, long arm as a pata, scythesaber or sabershort spear. There are also two-handed versionsgreater tapals, L shaped with the ''shorter'' blade almost to the shoulder and second handle in the middle of longer (so it's handled more like a scythe <ref>this makes somewhat more sense than [[Star Trek|Bat'leth]] in that it has two long cutting blades and is used underwater, where leverage matters more and speed less</ref>), but rare -as versatility is the whole point of using a tapal, and for greaterfighting reachlarger theyopponents havethere's their ''other'' weapon of choice - [[Prongs of Poseidon|old good trident]] with its superior reach.
* [[Exalted]] has quite a few of these in canon, though many of them have only one attack mode anyway. The [[Blade on a Stick|Daikalbar]] is a polearm with an ungodly mess of slashy and stabby bits on both sides, though it essentially has only one combat mode with them. The Chain Daiklave, meanwhile, is actually not a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]] (that's a chainklave); it's a short daiklave attached to a dire chain that can be used as a sword, a dire chain, or a [[Epic Flail|sword on a chain]].
 
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