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Someone told me on the discord that nets are not weapons in pathfinder 2e, which seems weird to me. It is used to initiate a grapple, which is a type of strike action.

--The reason the classification matters to me is related to the post I made about weapon infusion. If it is a weapon, then I could make one that is an elemental blast, which was especially effective in a game that I was playing in. If it is not a weapon, then it must be a tool, so I would need to have the flash forge feat instead (albeit, it wouldn't count as a blast in that case). But I think a net should be a weapon, since the only listed purpose of it is to be used to make attacks.

(historically, nets were used by roman gladiators in one of their iconic loadouts. It wouldn't surprise me if they were used elsewhere.)

Hello,
Is it possible to use base kinesis to maintain the form of a weapon beyond your turn (since base kinesis can be sustained)? Is there any reason that it shouldn't count as a useable weapon of the same type if it is, for example if you give it to a fighter that broke their weapon?

The kinetic blast talks about gathering "elemental matter" and weapon infusion states that it forms a weapon. What is unclear is if the matter diffuses to the point of being useless in combat. I think that it probably doesn't diffuse during the same turn, because one of the weapon options is backswing, which suggests that it remains in the form long enough to use it again in the same turn.

I was discussing the question on discord yesterday but the conversation was buried before I could continue it within reason. The main argument that I saw on why it couldn't be used as a weapon if you retained the shape was because the matter of a blast is instantaneous and so the matter would diffuse so much as to be useless; however, I disagree in the case of weapon infusion, because it does include backswing as one of the options.

-- If it works the way I think it does, a limiting factor would be the number of actions in a turn, so you couldn't equip an entire army or something. I don't see this as being particularly overpowered, but I might be missing something.