I know the idea of chainsaws and chainsaw weapons exists all over in the homebrew section of the forums here, but I've yet to see an actual chainsaw-focused thread. So this is it.
What are your ideas for chainsaws in pathfinder? How would they be statted? How would they work? Magic, alchemical, mechanical, or something else entirely?
There's lots of things I'd like to see about chainsaws and chainsaw weapons and how others would (or do) handle them, so let's see what you've all got!
Hey guns work in pathfinder, why not chainsaws. Sounds like a new gunslinger archetype, with special options for single attacks made as a full-round action.
Personally I want a chainsaw polearm.
Blade on a stick, meet chainsaw on a stick.
In some systems, chainsaws do lots of damage, but you cannot add your str bonus to damage rolls. I'd stay give it the same damage as a spiked chain.
Chainsword FTW! I usually run it as a magical item with a refillable charges that run off of a alchemical concoction or batteries found in the Dungeons of Golarion Red Redoubt of Karamoss chapter. The idea of a chainsaw polearm seems plausible, make it a polearm with certain magical properties you enjoy and skin it as numerian technology, either have it fueled by batteries or a alchemical fuel of your own design.