| Talent category | Combat Specialty |
| Method of purchase | During gameplay or character creation |
| Personality traits | None |
| Required base stats | Brawn 6+, Grace 6+, Wits 6+ |
| Required skills | Polearms 100+ |
| Required styles | Monkey 100+ |
| Required talents | Staff Mastery |
This talent improves your ability to fight with the quarterstaff, enhancing many of the available techniques in various different ways, such as reducing their execution speed, improving their attack, defence and damage, giving an innate bypass bonus, or inflicting specialised wounds on a critical hit.
Your quarterstaff gains an innate critical bypass of 250% instead of the normal 150% for all physical damage (see ‘help critical bypass’). You know how to hit where it hurts, and strike your opponent’s armour where it’s the weakest.