Cestus
Cost: 5 gp
Weight: 1 lb.
Damage: 1d3 (small), 1d4 (medium)
Critical: 19-20/x2
Range: —
Type: Bashing or Piercing
Category: Light Melee Weapons
Proficiency: Simple
Weapon Groups Close, Monk
Special: Monk
The cestus is a glove of leather or thick cloth that covers the wielder from mid-finger to mid-forearm. The close combat weapon is reinforced with metal plates over the fingers and often lined with wicked spikes along the backs of the hands and wrists.
While wearing a cestus, you are considered armed and your unarmed attacks deal normal damage. If you are proficient with a cestus, your unarmed strikes may deal bludgeoning or piercing damage. Monks are proficient with the cestus.
When using a cestus, your fingers are mostly exposed, allowing you to wield or carry items in that hand, but the constriction of the weapon at your knuckles gives you a –2 penalty on all precision-based tasks involving that hand (such as opening locks).
Weight: 1 lb.
Damage: 1d3 (small), 1d4 (medium)
Critical: 19-20/x2
Range: —
Type: Bashing or Piercing
Category: Light Melee Weapons
Proficiency: Simple
Weapon Groups Close, Monk
Special: Monk
The cestus is a glove of leather or thick cloth that covers the wielder from mid-finger to mid-forearm. The close combat weapon is reinforced with metal plates over the fingers and often lined with wicked spikes along the backs of the hands and wrists.
While wearing a cestus, you are considered armed and your unarmed attacks deal normal damage. If you are proficient with a cestus, your unarmed strikes may deal bludgeoning or piercing damage. Monks are proficient with the cestus.
When using a cestus, your fingers are mostly exposed, allowing you to wield or carry items in that hand, but the constriction of the weapon at your knuckles gives you a –2 penalty on all precision-based tasks involving that hand (such as opening locks).
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