On my turn I draw my Bard! Using people as weapons.


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Liberty's Edge

I have often wondered this, why are there no rules for using people as weapons. Say the frost giant (or some other BBEG) grapples and beats the PCs opposition of the grapple, could he therefore not be able to swing the PC as a improvised weapon?

I see this all the time in comic books and sometimes in other forms of media, and it has always struck me as odd that there would not be at least a blurb somewhere about how to do so.

So I ask what do you think would be the best way to handle the attack as a whole and the amount of dmg a person would inflict and/or take if slung around as a ragdoll weapon?


Oh hai der Body Bludgeon.


That...is...awesome


Improvised weapon rules might work, but the person would have to be 2 sizes smaller than the creature that is trying to swing them around if it were my game.
The other issue is that on your turn you must spend a standard action maintaining a grapple, and if you spend your standard action maintaining a grapple then the person is released.

Liberty's Edge

Cheapy wrote:
Oh hai der Body Bludgeon.

Wow I own that book and never even knew that was in there. That will indeed be how I handle the whole situation. Thank you.

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