Archaic

Weapon Feature(s): Basically a hand axe with a backward-pointing spike, a boarding axe is used to chop through hatches or rigging, to drag burning debris off a ship, or as a weapon. A boarding axe is a one-handed martial weapon that uses the same statistics as a handaxe, except it deals slashing or piercing damage. In addition, the spike grants a +2 circumstance bonus on Climb checks on wooden surfaces.

Weapon Feature(s): This is a small axe balanced for throwing.

Blade boots come with a spring-mounted knife that pops out when triggered with the right combination of toe presses.

Weapon Feature(s): You can use a blade boot as an off-hand weapon.

Action: Releasing the knife is a swift action; rearming it is a full-round action.

Drawback: When the blade is extended, you treat normal terrain as difficult and difficult terrain as impassable.

A cat-o’-nine-tails, also known as the “captain’s daughter,” is a short whip made of nine knotted thongs about 3 feet in length, designed to lacerate and inflict great pain without doing serious permanent damage.

Weapon Feature(s): A cat-o’-nine-tails deals no damage to any creature with an armor bonus of +1 or higher or a natural armor bonus of +3 or higher.

This short, curved sword is a favorite weapon of goblins, who show unusual cunning by drilling numerous holes in the blade to reduce the weapon's weight.

Special: If a wielder rolls a natural 1 when attacking with a this weapon, the weapon gains the broken condition. Masterwork and magical versions do not have this flaw. Most are sized for Small creatures.

Weapon Feature(s): This weapon can be used in melee or thrown like a throwing axe.

The gladius is the favorite short sword of gladiators, with a heavier blade than the standard short sword. It serves well as a slashing weapon.

Benefit: Feats and abilities that affect short swords apply to the gladius.

This knife has a spring-loaded blade hidden inside the handle.

This weapon is treated as a dagger.

Special: This knife can be designed to look like another type of object (a DC 15 Perception check reveals the deception).

Action: If held in your hand, you can activate it as a free action.

Weapon Feature(s):

While a character is wearing a tail attachment, its tail attack deals the tail attachment damage, and some attachments gain a special feature. Tail attachments are light weapons and can be improved by feats that can improve weapon attacks (such as Weapon Focus and Weapon Specialization).

There are five types of common tail attachments. All tail attachments make up a tail attachment weapon group that can be improved by the fighter's weapon training class ability. Tail attachments can be constructed of special material and made into masterwork or magic items.

Long Lash: This slender cord has tiny bits of glass and stone embedded in its length. This weapon can't be used against adjacent foes.

Pounder: This squat ball is made from some sort of dull metal.

Razored: This metal wedge has a prickly edge on one of its sides.

Spiked: This narrow spike tapers to a sharp point.

Sweeper: When properly used, this sharply curved piece of metal can knock opponents off their feet. Unlike most trip weapons, you cannot drop it if you are tripped during your own trip attempt.

It takes a full-round action to slip on a tail attachment, and the character gains a +4 bonus against disarm attempts made to remove his tail attachment.

This tool is a wide, single-edged blade about 2 feet in length. Most often used to hack through dense vegetation, it works equally well as a weapon.

Weapon Feature(s): A character proficient with a machete gains a +1 circumstance bonus on Survival checks to get along in the wild.

The pick is a type of war hammer with a very long spike on the reverse of the hammer head. Usually this spike is slightly curved downwards, much like a miner's pickaxe. The pick is excellent at piercing thick armor or chain mail which a sword would have difficulty penetrating.

Weapon Feature(s): This weapon ignores one point of damage reduction granted from heavy armor and two points granted from medium or light armor. This weapons also ignores one point of damage reduction when used against golems and two points against earth elementals.

A tailblade is a small, sharp knife designed to be strapped to the tip of a wielder's tail.

Weapon Feature(s): A character wielding a tailblade can make a tail attack, adding its Strength modifier to the tailblade's damage.

It takes a full-round action to strap on or remove a tailblade. The wearer can loosely attach the tailblade (without strapping it securely in place) as a move action, but using a loosely attached tailblade gives the wielder a –4 penalty on all attack rolls made with the weapon, and other creatures get a +4 bonus on disarm combat maneuver checks to disarm the tailblade.

Characters proficient with simple weapons are considered proficient with such attacks and can apply feats or effects appropriate to natural attacks to tail attacks made with a tailblade. If used as part of a full attack action, attacks with a tailblade are considered secondary attacks.

The sap is a small, easily-concealed club consisting of a leather-wrapped lead weight attached to the end of a leather-wrapped coil spring or rigid shaft, with a lanyard or strap on the end opposite the weight. Materials other than lead and leather are sometimes used to construct these weapons, but the design of a soft covering over a dense weighted core remain.

Weapon Feature(s): nonlethal

A sea-knife is a long-handled weapon with a short blade. It is designed to be strapped to the ankle or foot of the wielder, pointing downward and jutting out beyond the wearer's leg.

Weapon Feature(s): A sea-knife can be used as a light melee weapon when the wielder is swimming, flying, or prone. This allows the wielder to use a two-handed weapon, or wield a weapon with one hand and carry a shield, and still make off-hand attacks with the sea-knife. Attacks made with a sea-knife take a –2 circumstance penalty on attack rolls in addition to all other attack penalties.

Donning or removing a sea-knife is a full-round action.

Note: The wearer cannot use a leg with a sea-knife strapped to it for walking or running.

From a central metal ring, four tapering metal blades extend like points on a compass rose.

Weapon Feature(s): A wielder can stab with the starknife or throw it.

To all appearances, a war razor is an oversized razor or flip knife. As the razor folds into the handle, no sheath is required, making the weapon easy to hide.

Weapon Feature(s): You gain a +2 bonus on Sleight of Hand checks made to conceal the weapon on your body.

Also known as an elephant goad, this tool consists of a 2- to 3-foot rod ending in a spearhead and a backward-facing hook. Traditionally used to train and direct large animals, the ankus can be used as a weapon in a pinch.

Battle axes are specialized versions of utility axes. Many are suitable for use in one hand, while others are larger and used two-handed. Axes designed for warfare range in weight from just over 0.5 kg to 3 kg (1 to 6 pounds), and in length from just over 30 cm to upwards of 1.5 m (1 to 5 feet). Cleaving weapons longer than 1.5 m would arguably fall into the category of polearms.

Benefit: This combat scabbard has a sharp blade on the outer edge, allowing you to use it as a weapon.

A cutlass is a short, curved sword with a single sharp edge. Pirates favor cutlasses because the blade is sharp enough to cut through rigging (and enemy sailors) but is short enough to use in crowded shipboard melees.

A flail consists of a spiked metal ball, connected to a handle by a sturdy chain.

Weapon Feature(s): disarm, trip

A gandasa is a wide, single-edged dagger on a 2-foot handle and is wielded in combat like an axe. This weapon is also known as an elephant knife because the connection between the blade and the handle is often decorated to resemble a stylized elephant head.

The traditional form of this tribal weapon is a short blade bound to the skull of a large horned lizard but but a skill smith can craft one entirely out of metal.

Benefit: A traditional klar counts as a light wooden shield with armor spikes. A metal klar counts as a light steel shield with armor spikes.

Weapon Feature(s): special

A longsword (also spelled long sword, long-sword) is a type of sword characterized as having a cruciform hilt with a grip for two handed use and a straight double-edged blade of around 100–122 cm (39–48 in).

Eastern Version: Hwandudaedo This heavy sword consists of large straight blade with a thick back and wickedly sharpened edge. It is equivalent to a longsword.

This rigid, fingerless gauntlet has three blades projecting from the gauntlet's hand. The central blade is straight and double edged, while the side blades are curved like the prongs of a sai. You can't use the hand on which a manople is worn for anything else. A manople takes a full-round action to don, and gives you a +10 bonus to your CMD against disarm attempts.

A larger and heavier form of a light pick.

Benefit: You can use the Weapon Finesse feat to apply your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier to attack rolls with a rapier sized for you, even though it isn't a light weapon.

Drawback: You can't wield a rapier in two hands in order to apply 1-1/2 times your Strength bonus to damage.

Weapon Feature(s): finesse

A scimitar is a sword with a curved blade.

The scizore is a hardened tube that fits your forearm, ending in a semicircular blade used for devastating bladed punch attacks.

Benefit: The scizore grants a +1 shield bonus to AC, but if you attack with the blade, you lose the AC bonus that round and take a –1 penalty on attack rolls with the scizore. While wearing a scizore, you cannot use that hand for anything else. A scizore provides a +10 bonus to your CMD against being disarmed of your scizore. Donning a scizore is a full-round action.

You can bash with a shield instead of using it for defense.

Shield Bash Attacks

You can bash an opponent with a shield, using it as an off-hand weapon. Used this way, a shield is a martial bludgeoning weapon.

For the purpose of penalties on attack rolls, treat a heavy shield as a one-handed weapon and treat a light shield as a light weapon.

Weapon Feature(s): shield

Description: You can bash with a spiked shield instead of using it for defense.

Shield Bash Attacks

You can bash an opponent with a shield, using it as an off-hand weapon. Used this way, a shield is a martial bludgeoning weapon.

For the purpose of penalties on attack rolls, treat a heavy shield as a one-handed weapon and treat a light shield as a light weapon.

This slender light blade lies within a wooden container that serves as both its scabbard and hiding place.

Benefit: You can draw the blade from the cane as a swift action (or a free action if you have the Quick Draw feat). An observer must make a DC 20 Perception check to realize an undrawn sword cane is a weapon rather than a walking stick; the DC decreases to 10 if the observer is able to handle the weapon. You can use the Weapon Finesse feat to apply your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier to attack rolls with a sword cane sized for you, even though it isn't a light weapon. You can't wield a sword cane in two hands in order to apply 1-1/2 times your Strength modifier to damage.

This length of tempered wood, also called a macuahuitl, has bits of shark teeth, obsidian, glass, or similar materials studded all along its length.

Features: fragile

This is a forged weapon built to look much like a common terbutje. It lacks the fragility of its non-metallic counterpart.

A trident has three metal prongs at end of a 4-foot-long shaft.

Description: A trident can be thrown.

The war hammer consists of a handle and a head. The handle may be of different lengths, the longest being roughly equivalent to the halberd, and the shortest about the same as a mace. Long war hammers are pole weapons (polearms) meant for use against riders, whereas short ones are used in closer quarters and from horseback.