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If you take a moment and look up falchions it says they are one handed weapons, but in the game I've tried using multiple falchions and they all require one to wield them in both hands. I just looked it up on FRwiki and it says they are a two handed weapon. Why the difference?

For whatever reason falchions in D20 are more like two-handed scimitars than their real-life counterparts. Most likely they were grasping at straws to find a suitable weapon type to fit the 'low damage, low critical damage, high critical chance' series of curved blades, along with scimitars and kukri.

D&D, Pathfinder, et al. tend to get all swords (and implements or techniques of warfare else) terribly wrong. Sadly, real life is often a terrible measure of what a weapon, piece of armor, or technique should do.