three screwy questions about arms and wrists and lightning

[ohako]

1. Can you stash a bottled lightning in a wrist sheath? How about a deck of harrow cards?

(or, what can't you put in there?)

2. Say you have a sword. Then say there's a hollow pommel on it. Can you stick a bottled lightning in the pommel so that when you open the pommel, the bottled lightning goes off?

(or, if you can stick a flask in a hollow pommel, could you 'fire it' (or sprinkle it, or what have you) just by opening the pommel?

(the smoke arrow is an alchemical item that you can draw as a free action, so there's precedence for condensing the 'draw' and the 'use' of alchemy items, I suppose)

3. How much crap can you functionally strap to your forearm anyway?

a) a spring-loaded wrist sheath with a bottled lightning in it (for preference)
b) a tube arrow shooter (loaded, naturally)
c) a buckler gun (it's a buckler, and a weapon, sounds good)
d) a spiked gauntlet
e) a magic glove (worn under the gauntlet, one hopes)
f) a magic wristband
g) there was a 3.5 item called a potion bracer, but I think that actually takes up your wrist slot

anything I've forgotten?

[maouse]

Use the magic item slot list for location slots...

One gauntlet/gloves per BOTH hands (hands slot).
One bracer/bracelet/forearm slot per BOTH arms (wrist slot).

The forearm and wrist slot is the same slot. P459 of Core Rulebook.

Suffice it to say that if you can't wear 10 magical items on all these slots, you can't wear the non-magical versions either. In reality, you might be able to, but they couldn't be considered ready and useable.

Does a bottle fit in a pommel> not in my campaigns. Not in history. Not in reality. So... no. In a wrist sheath? Sure, probably. You'll look like Popeye the sailor man, and a perception check might allow a Sunder attack against the item. A deck of cards, absolutely. Remembering that I would limit pursuant to magic item slots. (in other words, if you had a +1 wrist sheath, you could only have one, so using a +0 non-magical one, you can only have one).

[seebs]

That's not quite right. Obviously, you can wear more than two rings; the "two ring" limit is a magic item limit specifically. That said, I'd be surprised if you could get more than one wrist sheath on an arm, for instance. You could maybe do gauntlet, bracer, and a wrist sheath, but I wouldn't try to get past that.