Ram Hammer, Dwarven
Cost 25 gp Weight 5 lbs.
Damage 1d6 (small), 1d8 (medium) Critical x3 Type bludgeoning
Range Increment 10 ft. (thrown)
Category one-handed Proficiency exotic
Weapon Groups hammers, thrownThe dwarven ram hammer is designed to be thrown or used in melee, with a long leather strap that is wrapped around the wrist when used to deliver blows in close combat but unfurled to aid in swinging the weapon when the hammer is thrown.
Pathfinder Player Companion: Heroes from the Fringe
--How exactly does this legal-for-Society-play face-pulper work?
Q1. How long is the strap? (The weapon doesn't list a maximum range, i.e., as if a whip)
Q2. If range is limited by the strap, that would imply that it doubles under the effects of Enlarge (up to maximum possible ranged increment)...Y/N?
Q3. The "aid in swinging" flavor text implies that it can be whooshed around at the end of the strap, i.e., granting the pseudo-reach of a polearm (or more; depending upon answer to Q1) but using dex to hit...Y/N?
Q4. How do melee and thrown attacks interleave during a full-attack? (Or don't they?)
Q5. What are the strap's hardness and HP, and are they improved when the weapon is enhanced?
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I think the strap is simple flavour, an explanation of why you can throw this slight variation on the warhammer when you can't throw an actual warhammer.
I think the strap is simple flavour, an explanation of why you can throw this slight variation on the warhammer when you can't throw an actual warhammer.
Well, you can throw a regular warhammer; you just eat a penalty (which might not matter much if you're a fighter with attack-bonus to burn, especially if you had nothing better to do anyway with no enemies close).
(The ram hammer, then, appears to cashier its Exotic proficiency requirement into waiving the penalty when thrown, get x3 thrown crits, and bestow an additional fighter weapon group. Interest would be mainly as a in-a-pinch one-handed ranged weapon for low-level S&B dwarves with Quick Draw.)
<wistfully sigh and shred martial-who-had-a-nice-thing concept>