Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Platstud 07-12-07, 01:21 PM	Has anyone seen or heard of a 3-Handed weapon? Also, do you think it would be reasonable to house-rule that using three hands on a 2-Handed weapon would increase the strength bonus, just as using two hands on a 1-Handed weapon does?
jokey665 07-12-07, 03:51 PM	I don't think I've ever seen a 3-handed weapon, but I do seem to remember seeing somewhere that each extra hand on a weapon adds another .5 STR bonus to damage.
tarkin 07-12-07, 05:00 PM	If I were making up a rule from scratch I would rule that each additional hand does nothing to the strength and applies -2 cumulative penalty to hit. It seems like a very silly thing to do. Strength is mostly in your back, and once you apply your entire back, you got nothing left to add. The extra hand seems far more likley to just get in the way.
Traverse 07-12-07, 05:41 PM	Savage Species had a sword with three hilts and three blades, meant for a six-armed creature. Crazy looking thing called a scissors sword, think it was meant to wielded with two hands gripping each hilt. Never seen or heard of a rule like jokey605's, I'd put my guess closer to tarkin's.
rironin 07-12-07, 05:44 PM	One way to capitalize on that would be a spell - was it "fuse arms" ? It combines you arms into just two but gives you big bonuses for each pair you fuse together.
Raymond_Luxury_Yacht 07-12-07, 07:53 PM	Has anyone seen or heard of a 3-Handed weapon? In KoL, yes.
Alexeduardo 07-12-07, 08:00 PM	If I were making up a rule from scratch I would rule that each additional hand does nothing to the strength and applies -2 cumulative penalty to hit. It seems like a very silly thing to do. Strength is mostly in your back, and once you apply your entire back, you got nothing left to add. The extra hand seems far more likley to just get in the way. I think this weapon is desinged for creatures with three arms or more. In which case you'll be an idiot to think any body structure as big as an arm is there for aesthetic purposes only
RavenDrake 07-12-07, 09:24 PM	Actually Savage Species (page 42) has rules for making weapons for creatures with more than 2 hands. You can't do it with normal equipment, but if the weapon is constructed so that it's properly balanced and the hilt lengthened to accommodate it, then the weapon can accommodate additional hands(each hand, being an offhand, adds .5x strength modifier so that three hands gives you 2x strength, 4 hands gives you 2.5x, etc.)
Platstud 07-13-07, 09:39 AM	Cool. Thanks for the help everyone. Maybe I'll check out Savage Species.