There's the Weapon Cord item, which allows you to pick up a dropped item as a swift action.
It says that removing it is a full round action and cutting it is a move action. But it says nothing about equiping it in the first place
a) Is it part of drawing the weapon, so you're always assumed to have the weapon cord attached, once you draw it?
b) What about trip weapons? It says you can drop a trip weapon to avoid being tripped in return. With the cord can I drop it, and next turn use a swift action to pick it up and attack again?
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There's the Weapon Cord item, which allows you to pick up a dropped item as a swift action.
It says that removing it is a full round action and cutting it is a move action. But it says nothing about equiping it in the first place
a) Is it part of drawing the weapon, so you're always assumed to have the weapon cord attached, once you draw it?
b) What about trip weapons? It says you can drop a trip weapon to avoid being tripped in return. With the cord can I drop it, and next turn use a swift action to pick it up and attack again?
(a) I'm not even sure you could deploy a weapon cord in the heat of combat. After all, you would have to attach the cod to your wrist and to the weapon. I think I would call it a full round action that provokes AoO. But that would be the case only if you specified that the cord was not already deployed.
I think the cord is assumed to be already connecting your wrist to the weapon while it is sheathed. You already secured the cord before you left for the adventure.(B) I don't see any reason why that should not work. Dropping the weapon to avoid being tripped is the same as dropping the weapon because someone disarmed you, IMHO. Isn't that the whole point of the weapon cord?
My question is whether you could have the cord on one weapon and use another weapon.
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Well, pfsrd.com says "Unlike a locked gauntlet, you can still use a hand with a weapon cord, though a dangling weapon may interfere with finer actions." which does kind of say it interferes with other weapons, but nothing about the degree of interference.
I suppose it would be a minimum of -1 to attack and maybe the same to damage?. Perhaps more if using a ranged weapon, at least on the attack roll, but since there's no mechanic on it, hard to say.
The description also says:
However, you cannot switch to a different weapon without first untying the cord (a full-round action) or cutting it (a move action or an attack, hardness 0, 0 hp)
Well, pfsrd.com says "Unlike a locked gauntlet, you can still use a hand with a weapon cord, though a dangling weapon may interfere with finer actions." which does kind of say it interferes with other weapons, but nothing about the degree of interference.
I suppose it would be a minimum of -1 to attack and maybe the same to damage?. Perhaps more if using a ranged weapon, at least on the attack roll, but since there's no mechanic on it, hard to say.
While I think you could potentially draw with the off hand and still utilize the tied hand to say fire a bow, that would certainly incur a penalty. And of course the "cannot switch to a different weapon" would be the killer.