Editing Samsara:Contests (section)

===Variation: Weapons===
If you are interested in stressing the different, tactical capabilities of different weapons in the ever-popular fight scenes , then you could use weapons types as tactics.  A simple scheme for melee weapons might be thus:

<i>Weapon Type</i>					<i>Effect rating</i>
*Small weapon (dagger, club)					1
*Medium weapon (shortsword, hand axe, mace)			2
*Large weapon (longsword, battleaxe, spear)			3
*Huge weapon (lance, polearm, great axe, greatsword)		4

This can be extrapolated to contests other than physical fights.  For example, a calligrapher might try to create a striking image.  If he chooses a blunt-tipped brush, that has an Effect rating of 3: he will likely succeed or fail spectacularly.  

One might also consider a method of argumentation or mountain-climbing strategy to be weapons, rather than tactics.  You could then use the default system for everything except physical combat, for which you would then use this variation.