I was thinking about this the other day and I came up with this question, how does one store a spiked chain. Now obviously swords and daggers have sheaths, one can even make one for a spear or an axe, but what do you do about a spiked chain. Do they make sheaths for that? What would it look like? And if a charcter doesn't have a sheath, are they just walking around with this spiky chain in their belt, smacking them evry time they run or hang upside down? Just a thought.
I'd imagine it would store in coiled form. As for how to run without it slapping your outer thigh into raspberry slushie? Not a clue.
how does one store a spiked chain.
I actually own and operate a spiked chain. I don't store it, necessarily, but I hang it from the end of my bow staff when not flailing another life form to death with it. When walking from one battle zone to another it is simple enough to walk with my bow staff over my sholder, with the chain dangling from it a safe distance from my own person.
I have sweet bow staff skills, but a spiked chain is my favorite. I named mine "Ripper..." (it's +3 !!)
Put it in a bag. Or maybe a box. Or a goblin slave boy/girl witha ring of regeneration...
You can put it in my box.
A spiked chain is like a pole arm or a greatsword. If you're the sort of person who puts their weapon away /ever/ then maybe this isn't the sort of tool for you, try the rapier. In your box.
...how does one store a spiked chain?
It's D&D -- we don't ask those questions, any more than we ask where the little boys' (or girls') room is in the dungeon.
Put it in a bag. Or maybe a box. Or a goblin slave boy/girl witha ring of regeneration...
LOL :)
Jack
I'd imagine it would store in coiled form. As for how to run without it slapping your outer thigh into raspberry slushie? Not a clue.
I'd think this would make sense. Also items like a whip often have tough leather bags to carry them in. I suspect somthing similier could hold a spiked chain.
I'd think this would make sense. Also items like a whip often have tough leather bags to carry them in. I suspect somthing similier could hold a spiked chain.I'd imagine it would store in coiled form. As for how to run without it slapping your outer thigh into raspberry slushie? Not a clue.
I had a feeling I didn't know what I was talking about. I couldn't remember exactly what it looked like.
Hard to imagine pulling something like a whip out of any containment quick enough to deploy it in a sudden melee. As some others have said, I guess you just walk around town with it lagging behind you like some ferrous tail.
Very tough looking that way, well except for when you have mesmerized strays cats running up behind you playing with it like yarn.
I had a feeling I didn't know what I was talking about. I couldn't remember exactly what it looked like.Hard to imagine pulling something like a whip out of any containment quick enough to deploy it in a sudden melee. As some others have said, I guess you just walk around town with it lagging behind you like some ferrous tail.
Very tough looking that way, well except for when you have mesmerized strays cats running up behind you playing with it like yarn.
Of you packed it correctly it would probably come out pretty easily. The picture of this thing looks like a basic chain with spiky things on each end so its not covered in barbs or anything.
Of you packed it correctly it would probably come out pretty easily. The picture of this thing looks like a basic chain with spiky things on each end so its not covered in barbs or anything.
Oh! That changes things. Thanks for your patience. You intuited exactly what I was picturing... a barb covered whip.
I have the pertinent book in the other room but I'm going through a home renovation and there is a mountain of building supplies and powertools in the way. I'd need a plane to get to those bookshelves.
Really not having a goblin boy/girl to carry your spiked chain around in would be problematic. Having spent the day in a shopping mall (think above ground commercial dungeon over populated with blue haired zombies and bellybutton ringed allips)a 10 pound box rattling around in ones hand would suck. It certainly would impose a -2 on my attitude.
It it a reach weapon, so if one wore it like a feather boa it might only turn ones ankles into a pair of splintery rasberry slushies.
Really not having a goblin boy/girl to carry your spiked chain around in would be problematic. Having spent the day in a shopping mall (think above ground commercial dungeon over populated with blue haired zombies and bellybutton ringed allips)a 10 pound box rattling around in ones hand would suck. It certainly would impose a -2 on my attitude.
It it a reach weapon, so if one wore it like a feather boa it might only turn ones ankles into a pair of splintery rasberry slushies.
It really is a dungeon of horrors, isn't it? lol
Of you packed it correctly it would probably come out pretty easily.
mmm....
Spiked chains don't need to be sheathed. When wielded by a proficient fighter, they are instantly summoned from the demi-plane of S&M, but only if the fighter wears spiked leather armor..