MaxiDuRaritry
2018-09-15, 05:05 PM
Most weapons are held in the hands, but there are a few that actually take up a body slot. There are probably all sorts of uses for this, but I can only think of a few, such as having a warning/eager/smoking weapon on at all times, even while your hands are empty, or having sizing and morphing on, enhancing (say) a gnome battle cloak as a starmantle cloak and turning it into a poison ring to wear on a finger while still maintaining the same enhancements, or doing the same with a horned helm that doubles as a headband of Int that turns into a gauntlet. Oh, and altering a slot also helps free up chakra binds for incarnum users, but that's more an extension of the above than anything.
The ones I can think of off the top of my head are:
Hands: Gauntlets (PHB)
Shoulders: Gnome battle cloak (Races of Stone)
Body (Armor): Armor spikes (PHB)
Ring: Poison ring (Dragon Compendium)
Crown: Horned helm (MIC)
Throat: Necklace of natural weapons (Savage Species)
Feet: Footbow (Races of the Wild)
Tail: Tail club/tail scythe (Savage Species/Serpent Kingdoms)*
As a special note, the ioun blade property (A&EG) allows you to slot an ioun stone in the above weapons. The ringsword enhancement (also A&EG) allows you to daisy-chain multiple weapons-turned-poison-rings together until you run out of rings.
Can anyone think of anything else that takes up a regular body slot but counts as a weapon? Maybe some more uses for these slotted items?
*Note, not a body slotted item, exactly; instead, it's a slotless item that goes on the tail. Or it inhabits the tail "slot," even though that's not technically a thing.
The ones I can think of off the top of my head are:
Hands: Gauntlets (PHB)
Shoulders: Gnome battle cloak (Races of Stone)
Body (Armor): Armor spikes (PHB)
Ring: Poison ring (Dragon Compendium)
Crown: Horned helm (MIC)
Throat: Necklace of natural weapons (Savage Species)
Feet: Footbow (Races of the Wild)
Tail: Tail club/tail scythe (Savage Species/Serpent Kingdoms)*
As a special note, the ioun blade property (A&EG) allows you to slot an ioun stone in the above weapons. The ringsword enhancement (also A&EG) allows you to daisy-chain multiple weapons-turned-poison-rings together until you run out of rings.
Can anyone think of anything else that takes up a regular body slot but counts as a weapon? Maybe some more uses for these slotted items?
*Note, not a body slotted item, exactly; instead, it's a slotless item that goes on the tail. Or it inhabits the tail "slot," even though that's not technically a thing.