Spiked gauntlets?

[Yagathai]

For a set of spiked gauntlets, Pow +1, Add 1, fast sounds reasonable, right? Dagger stats, basically.

So for Superior-quality Spiked Gauntlets, would adding a VA 1 to that be reasonable? I think so, but if anyone has any other ideas...

[Fizban]

I don't think it should be like a dagger... I think add should stay 2, and maybe improve to 1 for the superior-quality, with no VA.
But maybe it's only me :P

[Kublai]

I think it would work fine with dagger stats in the book, the only difference being you use guantlets with the Brawling skill as opposed to the Dagger skill.

[Enlil]

It would certainly work fine as a dagger, but I think I would maybe make it Power 2 Add 2 VA 0 (or Power 1 Add 2 VA 0 if I were feeling mean). With superior quality, maybe +1D to lock (I'm thinking of an old theatrix character former gladiator with unbreakable silver gauntlets who used them while grappling . . .)

Christian

[Yagathai]

I'm thinking Add 1 only because the add is supposed to represent how intuitive and simple a weapon is to use. I don't see spiked gauntlets being any less intuitive and simple to hit with than a dagger or fist. And I wouldn't go with Pow 2 -- 2 is sword or spear, and I just don't see spiked gauntlets doing that sort of mayhem. They'll ring your bell better than an empty fist, but they won't gut you or stick you in the giblets.

[Enlil]

Fists are add 2. I think daggers are Add 1 because it is shockingly easy to deal nasty wounds with them. I put in a Power 2 because it seems like it should do more damage than a rock. Maybe Power 1, with +1d to locks?

Christian

[Yagathai]

They are? :oops: Shows what I know. But I don't know that they'll do that much more damage than laying a brick upside someone's head.

I don't know why they'd add to locks, necessarily. I mean, you can't grab any harder with gauntlets on. In fact, they might even make you more clumsy. Now, I could see the case for a +1d to disarm, if you really want to give them a kewl bonus.

[Enlil]

I think I was thinking it would allow more painful holds. That really only makes sense against unarmored foes, though :oops:

Maybe some kind of bonus to damaging locks. Though I can't find the rules for damaging locks in revised . . .

Christian

[luke]

you could do a variety of spiked gauntlets:


Heavy Knuckles: Pow 1, Add 2, VA -, fast.

Hand of Blades, Pow 0, Add 2, VA 1, fast.

Thikes: Pow 0, Add 1, VA -, fast.

Spiked Fist: Power 1, Add 1, VA -, fast

Cestus: Pow 1, Add 2, fast, counts as 2D armor on that arm.

Hand of Doom: Power 2, Add 2, VA 1, slow. Counts as 3D armor on that arm.

all death gauntlets count as Shortest length and cause a +2 Ob Agility penalty for using that hand for anything else.

-L