The weirdest part about it is that the stats imply that not only does every fighter know how to use one, but that it's widely used enough to not be uncommon or advanced. Which is the opposite of what the meteor hammer is, being a fairly dangerous and unorthodox weapon that requires a lot of very specific training and mastery to use even safely.
It is nice that it is far less obtrusive to get cool, weird weapons that make for flashier characters, but if there is going to be make a distinction about common and uncommon weapons, that's one that I would think fits the bill.
The spiked chain has uncommon and Zon-Kuthon with an entire nation dedicated to his worship has it as his favoured weapon. Why meteor hammers are more common than a functionally probably fairly similar weapon is very odd and I have to wonder if it simply was a mistake.
Hey, don't look too closely at the Meteor hammer and get it errata'd out of PFS sanctioning. My fighter needs it. It's basically his identity. He's the guy with a meteor hammer.
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The only reason I can see is that a 1d8 reach weapon that can flurry could be a bit unbalanced but I doubt that.
Compare to Bo Staff
I guess because it's quite a strong martial weapon so they didn't want to give it to the monk.
Answer: Power creep...
I don't see how. you would give up your stance just to gain reach and trip. otherwise Stances offer everything else.
You got me wrong. For the monk, no, but by not making this a monk weapon or uncommon you are more or less power creeping other comparable CRB martial weapons.
I don't see how. you would give up your stance just to gain reach and trip. otherwise Stances offer everything else.You got me wrong. For the monk, no, but by not making this a monk weapon or uncommon you are more or less power creeping other comparable CRB martial weapons.
Fauchard still blows this out of the water.
So instead I went martial arts ballerina because I couldn't use the meteor hammer. Going Crane stance route made for good flavour of doing things like graceful jumps (I had to flavor crane strikes as pirouette kicks) Crane flutter is basically dancing and twirling about to avoid attack in the same motion as a kick.
Is his name Bon Kurei?
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I don't see how. you would give up your stance just to gain reach and trip. otherwise Stances offer everything else.You got me wrong. For the monk, no, but by not making this a monk weapon or uncommon you are more or less power creeping other comparable CRB martial weapons.
Having the monk trait doesn't prevent other classes from using it. Anyone trained in martial weapons can use a bo staff because it's not uncommon. Besides, it's been said over and over again by the devs that rarity doesn't have an impact on power.
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I'm okay with it being martial, at least. It is essentially a ball on a chain and soft weapons are not always advanced liked in PF1.
Concerning the monk trait, I have a sneaking suspicion that there might be more support for weapon wielding monks in the APG. Possibly a feat that allows you to add the monk trait to specific weapons. This would allow monks to use a wider arrange of weapons without having to print monk versions of every weapon or introduce power creep.
Hey, don't look too closely at the Meteor hammer and get it errata'd out of PFS sanctioning. My fighter needs it. It's basically his identity. He's the guy with a meteor hammer.
Are you talking about PFS2 or PFS1 sanctioning? I just double checked all the sanctioning docs for PFS2 and its not called out as restricted or limited.
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Hey, don't look too closely at the Meteor hammer and get it errata'd out of PFS sanctioning. My fighter needs it. It's basically his identity. He's the guy with a meteor hammer.Are you talking about PFS2 or PFS1 sanctioning? I just double checked all the sanctioning docs for PFS2 and its not called out as restricted or limited.
Second edition PFS. I created my fighter right after the sanctioning of Gods & Magic, so he's had a meteor hammer since he was created.
My joke was that it's already a really good weapon, so changing to add monk traits would make it better, and if it's better they might go, "yeah, this should be uncommon or advanced" or something, and then my fighter would be sad.
He'd be like Sokka without his boomerang.
Except it's a meteor hammer with the weight in the shape of a skull, typically with light cast on it, and it only took me 5 levels of using it as my target for light to realize it should be in the shape of a skull and named Will o' Wisp.
Ahh I missed the hypothetical/joke aspect.