This may have been answered in one of the other Magus threads, but I couldn't find it.
A black blade is always a one-handed slashing weapon, a rapier, or a sword cane (see the Advanced Player’s Guide). The magus chooses the blade’s type upon gaining the blade, and once chosen, it can’t be changed.
Does this mean that the only weapons that can be Black Blades are swords, or can axes and sickles, and similar weapons, also be Black Blades? In the first sentence, it says any one-handed slashing weapon, but in the second it says "the blade's type", which makes it sound (to my GM anyway) that swords are the only option.
Axes have blades.
If it's one handed and slashing, it's fine.
This may have been answered in one of the other Magus threads, but I couldn't find it.
A black blade is always a one-handed slashing weapon, a rapier, or a sword cane (see the Advanced Player’s Guide). The magus chooses the blade’s type upon gaining the blade, and once chosen, it can’t be changed.Does this mean that the only weapons that can be Black Blades are swords, or can axes and sickles, and similar weapons, also be Black Blades? In the first sentence, it says any one-handed slashing weapon, but in the second it says "the blade's type", which makes it sound (to my GM anyway) that swords are the only option.
well that might be because it is called 'Black Blade' though it is a fair GM's call to restrict it to actual blades, it does seem what is intended.
Otherwise whips can be decent.