From:	"Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject:	About that sword...
Date:	Sun, 24 Oct 1993 13:46:03 -0700

Minotaur said:

>> Okay here is the situation. I have a physical adept who is
>> looking for a weapon foci.

Don't they all?

>> What he wants is the following:
>> a bastard sword size weapon
>> w/ a dagger/dirk in the handle.

Unusual, but not too unusual.

>> Now the fun part- he wants the handle to be detachable.
>> The handle will be separable into 2 pieces... with
>> a monofilament garrote between the handle components.

Yeah, right. Let's stuff a monofilament into a weapon focus. I hope he doesn't
plan on enchanting that too.

>> Add insult to injury- he wants the weapons foci garrote
>> to be a +4 reach basically by packing it w/ orichalchum.

Oh my god! He does. Tell your physical adept two things:

1) You cannot make a monofilament weapon focus. Why? Because an enchanted
weapon has to be hand-made with oricahalcum mixed into it and monofilament
must be produced by machines with a particular ingrediants.

2) Reach of a weapon focus determines how much oricahalcum must be built into
it not vis-versa. A reach +4 weapon requires 5 units of oricahalcum but
five units of oricahalcum do not make a weapon reach +4. A garrote would
be reach 0.

>> What this means in my game is that the Called Shot needed
>> for a garrote to be effective is negated completely by this
>> reach bonus!

See 2 above.

>> Is there anything in the rules, outside of Game Balance, that
>> can be used to negate this weapon?

See 1 and 2 above.

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