Can anyone think of a leg equivalent of the cestus?


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No seriously I can't think of what it would be


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Spurs? A toe-blade? Steel-toed boots? (Steel-toed flap shoes if you're an evil Qlippoth clown.)

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Pizza Lord wrote:
Spurs? A toe-blade? Steel-toed boots? (Steel-toed flap shoes if you're an evil Qlippoth clown.)

Ok let me rephrase that is there any equivalent in the game? Like leg greaves or something?


The closest thing is the boot blade, and it sucks.

Of course, you can always kick someone, which is an unarmed strike.

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Claxon wrote:

The closest thing is the boot blade, and it sucks.

Of course, you can always kick someone, which is an unarmed strike.

Then can you elaborate whether unarmed strike works with warpriests sacred weapon feature? Cause its rather unclear on that


If you're character wearing armor that covers their legs, then spiked armor should work. Perhaps spiked greaves?

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ChaiGuy wrote:
If you're character wearing armor that covers their legs, then spiked armor should work. Perhaps spiked greaves?

Lets assume light armor,cause trying to fight unarmed with medium or heavy armor would be like trying to run a sprint, with 40 pounds strapped to each leg.


Malik Gyan Daumantas wrote:
Claxon wrote:

The closest thing is the boot blade, and it sucks.

Of course, you can always kick someone, which is an unarmed strike.

Then can you elaborate whether unarmed strike works with warpriests sacred weapon feature? Cause its rather unclear on that

Sacred weapon works with your deity's favored weapon, whatever that may be, and anything you take Weapon Focus in. So if your deity's favored weapon is unarmed strike (e.g. Irori) or you took Weapon Focus (unarmed strike), your UAS is a sacred weapon and gets sacred weapon damage, enhanceability, etc.

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Fuzzy-Wuzzy wrote:
Malik Gyan Daumantas wrote:
Claxon wrote:

The closest thing is the boot blade, and it sucks.

Of course, you can always kick someone, which is an unarmed strike.

Then can you elaborate whether unarmed strike works with warpriests sacred weapon feature? Cause its rather unclear on that
Sacred weapon works with your deity's favored weapon, whatever that may be, and anything you take Weapon Focus in. So if your deity's favored weapon is unarmed strike (e.g. Irori) or you took Weapon Focus (unarmed strike), your UAS is a sacred weapon and gets sacred weapon damage, enhanceability, etc.

AH i see ok then that...honestly kinda makes the sacred fist archtype completely pointless but ok then.


Malik Gyan Daumantas wrote:
ChaiGuy wrote:
If you're character wearing armor that covers their legs, then spiked armor should work. Perhaps spiked greaves?
Lets assume light armor,cause trying to fight unarmed with medium or heavy armor would be like trying to run a sprint, with 40 pounds strapped to each leg.

I mean, they *did* do it back in the day. It was more wrestling, though, and actual historical armor was not as encumbering as the tradition that Pathfinder inherited from D&D.


Malik Gyan Daumantas wrote:
Fuzzy-Wuzzy wrote:
Malik Gyan Daumantas wrote:
Claxon wrote:

The closest thing is the boot blade, and it sucks.

Of course, you can always kick someone, which is an unarmed strike.

Then can you elaborate whether unarmed strike works with warpriests sacred weapon feature? Cause its rather unclear on that
Sacred weapon works with your deity's favored weapon, whatever that may be, and anything you take Weapon Focus in. So if your deity's favored weapon is unarmed strike (e.g. Irori) or you took Weapon Focus (unarmed strike), your UAS is a sacred weapon and gets sacred weapon damage, enhanceability, etc.
AH i see ok then that...honestly kinda makes the sacred fist archtype completely pointless but ok then.

It replaces sacred weapon with flurry of blows. You get monk damage progression but you don't get to enhance it. It's not pointless if you enjoy the monk abilities but want to have 3/4 cleric casting. People have been trying to make a good monk/cleric multi class since the beginning


A sabaton or solleret is part of a knight's armour that covers the foot.
Chausses are armour for the legs, usually made from mail. They could extend to the knee or cover the entire leg.

In game when you buy chainmail, state that it has full chausses and thus covers the feet.


Malik Gyan Daumantas wrote:
ChaiGuy wrote:
If you're character wearing armor that covers their legs, then spiked armor should work. Perhaps spiked greaves?
Lets assume light armor,cause trying to fight unarmed with medium or heavy armor would be like trying to run a sprint, with 40 pounds strapped to each leg.

Sounds like something people would use to train so they can improve their speed when actually performing a sprint. So it's not as bad or silly as you make it out to be.

As others have said, Spiked Armor is possible for use since it doesn't require hands, and flavoring it as having spiked tonlets or sabatons would be both acceptable and cool.


Boot to the Head!


Darksol the Painbringer wrote:
Malik Gyan Daumantas wrote:
ChaiGuy wrote:
If you're character wearing armor that covers their legs, then spiked armor should work. Perhaps spiked greaves?
Lets assume light armor,cause trying to fight unarmed with medium or heavy armor would be like trying to run a sprint, with 40 pounds strapped to each leg.

Sounds like something people would use to train so they can improve their speed when actually performing a sprint. So it's not as bad or silly as you make it out to be.

As others have said, Spiked Armor is possible for use since it doesn't require hands, and flavoring it as having spiked tonlets or sabatons would be both acceptable and cool.

Just remember that your PC's spiked toes have to be short(up to 1ft) as ONLY nobles can have sabatons up to 2.5ft... lol...

(and no, not the swedish power metal band...)


Dang. I was going to really look for Sabaton videos until you said they didn't wear them...


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Tape leg?


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you mean Shillelegh? it's a kinda peg leg for celtic pirates...


Niemand wrote:
you mean Shillelegh? it's a kinda peg leg for celtic pirates...

Bravo, sir. Bravo.


Seriously, though, the way I look at it and houserule it is if your foot is clad in something like a hard soled boot and up, it counts as lethal damage like a cestus. It might not *increase* damage, but it's at least lethal.


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Greaves btw are the name of the combat equivalent last I knew.
but Pathfinder does not have any sadly.

i would just use armour spikes though, put them on my boots.
IF I remember corrrectly.. armour spikes just require to be attached to armour.
and all clothing has an AC bonus of 0.. aka its armour just with no defensive value by game terms (hence you can enchant with that magic vestment spell etc)

So.. I'd just have boots, and attach armour spikes and use those.
In theory.. that should be a perfectly legal way to get leg kicking focused character

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