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Benefit. You can wield the chakram as a melee weapon, but it is not designed for such use; you take a –1 penalty on your attack roll with the weapon and must make a DC 15 Dexterity save or cut yourself on the blade (half damage, no Strength modifier). You do not need to make this save if wearing heavy armor.

This alchemically grown crystal dart builds up an electrical charge when thrown.

Benefit. A creature struck by the dart takes normal piercing damage and 1d6 points of electricity damage. Anyone proficient in darts can use a jolting dart. Once thrown, the dart is destroyed.

A hurlbat is a throwing axe made from a single piece of flat metal. Every extremity of the hurlbat is sharpened, including the point of the handle.

Benefit(s) You can wield the hurlbat as a melee weapon, but it’s not designed for such use; you take a –1 penalty on melee attack rolls with the weapon, and you must succeed at a DC 15 Dexterity save when making melee attacks to avoid cutting yourself on an edge and taking 1 point of slashing damage. You don’t need to attempt this save while wearing heavy armor.

Benefit. Like ammunition, a thrown pilum that hits its target is destroyed. If you hit an shield-using opponent with a pilum, he loses the AC bonus from that shield until he takes a standard action to pry out the remnants of the pilum.

A spear-sling consists of a hollow tube with a loop of elastic material, such as rubber or sinew, attached to one end. The wielder draws a harpoon, javelin, shortspear, or spear through the tube, pulling the loop taut. Releasing the loop propels the shaft forward like a bow does an arrow.

Benefit(s) A harpoon, javelin, shortspear, spear, or other weapon shot from a spear-sling is treated as a projectile weapon instead of a thrown weapon, increasing its maximum range and allowing it to be used underwater. Using a spear-sling requires two hands.

Loading a spear-sling is a standard action that provokes attacks of opportunity.

This simple fiber or leather cord has a knot at either end. One end is wound once around the notch of a throwing arrow. The cord runs taut along the shaft to the front of the arrow, where you hold the arrow to throw. The remainder of the cord wraps around your hand. The cord dramatically increases the throwing arrow’s range.

Benefit(s) Attaching the cord to a throwing arrow is a bonus action that requires two hands and provokes attacks of opportunity. The Archery Fighting Style can be taken for throwing arrow cords, allowing you to load a throwing arrow as a free action.

A barbazu beard is an intimidating helm with a full facemask wrought to look like a snarling barbazu’s head. Extending from the chin area of the face guard is a razor-sharp blade much like an actual barbazu’s beard, usually 8 inches long but sometimes longer.

A barbazu beard can be used as an off-hand weapon that requires no hands to use; thus, a warrior could combine use of a barbazu beard with a two-handed weapon.

Attacking with a barbazu beard provokes an attack of opportunity. Because it is so close to the wearer’s face, using a barbazu beard against creatures harmful to touch (such as fire elementals and acidic oozes) has the same risks as using a natural weapon or unarmed strike against these creatures.

This odd weapon is a 2-foot rod topped with four blunt claws. Squeezing the handle causes the claws to close. You can use the gnome pincher to attempt a disarm or steal action with a +2 bonus. You can transfer an object from the pincher to your free hand as a free action. Gnomes treat gnome pinchers as martial weapons.

Benefit: If you are proficient with the butterfly knife (or have the Quick Draw feat) and are holding it in your hand, you may open it as a free action; a nonproficient user must spend a bonus action to open it. Otherwise, treat this weapon as a dagger. When it’s closed, you gain a +2 bonus on Sleight of Hand checks made to conceal it on your body.

By wrapping your hands and forearms in thin but tough hemp ropes and then soaking the makeshift gloves in water for weight and expansion, you can transform your fists into rockhard weapons easily capable of killing in a fistfight.

Each rope gauntlet takes a full minute to wrap and another minute to soak, but once applied can be worn for a day; removing a rope gauntlet takes 1 Action.

When wearing rope gauntlets, your attacks deal normal damage. If you are proficient with rope gauntlets, you may use the rough edges of the ropes to deal slashing damage rather than bludgeoning damage.

Your fingers are mostly exposed, allowing you to wield or carry items in your hands while wearing rope gauntlets, but the constriction of the weapon at your knuckles gives you a –2 penalty on all precision based tasks involving your hands (such as opening locks).

This elaborate knife is carved with special barbs and grooves, meant to channel toxins into the bloodstream. Any injury based poisons applied to this weapon increases the DC of the poison by 2. Applying the poison to the weapon unproficiently adds a -4 to the check not to get poisoned.

This blade is a smaller, lighter version of the shotel.

Benefit. You gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls with a sica against opponents using bucklers, light shields, or heavy shields.

An estoc is a sword about as long as a bastard sword, but designed exclusively for thrusting attacks. Its “blade” is a steel spike with a triangular, square, or hexagonal cross-section. Like the bastard sword, an estoc requires special training to use it one handed, but it can also be wielded as a two-handed martial weapon.

A knobkerrie, or iwisa, is carved from a single piece of hardwood with a shaft 2 to 4 feet long surmounted by a bulbous knob. The knobkerrie is a traditional hunting weapon, but it’s also used as a symbol of authority. Many tribal elders use decorated knobkerries as scepters or canes. A knobkerrie is thrown end-over-end.

Benefit(s) If you are proficient, you gain a +1 bonus on ranged attack rolls with a knobkerrie against opponents using bucklers, light shields, or heavy shields. If you aren’t proficient with a knobkerrie, treat it as a club.

The shotel is a downward-curving sword designed to reach over or around an opponent’s shield.

Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls with a shotel against opponents using bucklers, light shields, or heavy shields.

Favored by those with no talent for witchcraft, this exotic blade curves multiple times along its 3-1/2 feet. The sickle-sword’s hilt is long and curved, and its blade bears a small secondary grip partway up its length. These allow a wielder with a free hand to rapidly twist the sword in unpredictable ways. When wielding a sickle-sword in one hand and nothing in the other, you can spend a swift action to gain a +2 bonus on your next attack roll before the end of your turn.

This 10-foot-long chain is weighted at the end by a ball of solid iron the size of a large fist. By adjusting the slack of the chain, the weapon can be used either with or without reach. Changing between using it as a normal weapon and a reach weapon is a bonus action.

Behind this long pole weapon’s spearhead, several short branches project from the shaft at irregular intervals, each angled forward and tipped with a smaller leaf-like blade. When you make attacks of opportunity provoked by movement, you gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls.

A flying blade is a large, crescent-shaped blade anchored to a 10-foot chain.

Benefit: You fight with a flying blade by spinning it about your head or by snapping it toward an opponent. The flying blade is a clumsy weapon and receives a –2 penalty on attack rolls, but when you make attacks of opportunity provoked by movement, you receive a +2 bonus on attack rolls instead of the penalty.

The blade of this glaive is serrated and mounted on an axle, around which a heavy cord is wrapped. When the cord is pulled as a bonus action, the blade spins rapidly for a number of rounds equal to your Strength bonus. While the blade is spinning, you gain a +2 bonus on damage rolls with the weapon. When the blade is not spinning, treat this weapon as a glaive.

If the user is trained in the spear’s use, a totem spear can be used by bards as a musical instrument of the Wind type. The spear itself has a strong, flexible shaft, and in the hands of one trained in its use, grants a +2 bonus on Acrobatics checks. The spear’s relatively wide head allows it to be used as a slashing weapon, swung side to side, or as a piercing weapon in a more traditional spear-fighting technique.

This scythe has a spring-loaded blade that folds down into the weapon’s handle. Opening the scythe blade is a bonus action, and closing it again is a standard action. You can use a Sleight of Hand check to treat a closed switchscythe as a hidden weapon

These extremely small and lightweight darts function like blowgun darts, except they are used to deliver poisons surreptitiously instead of dealing damage. When you hit with a dart, the poison is injected into the target while the dart breaks off and falls away, leaving the wound hard to spot. Any amount of damage reduction, hardness, or similar protection prevents the featherweight dart from delivering its injected poison. Anyone examining the target must succeed at a DC 20 Perception/Investigation check to find the puncture wound, while finding the dart itself at the location where it fell requires a successful DC 15 Perception check. This ammunition can be used in both blowguns and wrist launchers.

This heavy crossbow has a winch mounted below the stock.

Benefit(s). Up to 50 feet of silk rope can be wound onto the winch as a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity. The wound rope can be attached to a barbed bolt or grappling bolt as part of reloading. After firing such a bolt, the wielder can use the winch to retract the rope or pull herself along the rope if the bolt is secure.

When used with a barbed bolt, the winch provides a +2 bonus on grapple checks to pull the target toward you.

When used with a grappling bolt, the winch provides a +2 bonus on Climb checks.

Benefit: A launching crossbow is designed to launch splash weapons.

Load: Action that provokes attacks of opportunity.

This staff has a cradle at the end, designed to hold alchemical weapons such as acid. A flask thrower significantly extends the range of thrown substances that deal splash damage, such as acid, alchemist’s fire, or holy water, as well as that of tools such as tanglefoot bags, thunderstones, or caltrops.

A Large or smaller creature hit by a net is Restrained until it is freed. A net has no effect on creatures that are formless, or creatures that are Huge or larger. A creature can use its action to make a DC 10 Strength check, freeing itself or another creature within its reach on a success. Dealing 5 slashing damage to the net (AC 10) also frees the creature without harming it, ending the effect and destroying the net. When you use an action, Bonus Action, or reaction to Attack with a net, you can make only one Attack regardless of the number of attacks you can normally make.

Benefit: This shield is designed for throwing and has specially designed straps allowing you to unclasp and throw it as a free action. Tower shields cannot be throwing shields.

Benefit: Although they are thrown weapons, shuriken are treated as ammunition for the purposes of drawing them, crafting masterwork or otherwise special versions of them, and what happens to them after they are thrown.

Drawback: A shuriken can’t be used as a melee weapon.

One of the largest crossbows, and suitably powerful for its size. The bow string is made of metal, requiring great strength to fire.

Requires a Strength of 15 to use.

This crossbow was customized for repeat-firing to face mobs alone. Benefit: Fires four bolts per attack action, but you cannot move on a turn on which it is fired.

Long-range heavy crossbow used by High-Elven snipers.

Its lengthy base makes aiming difficult, and accurate usage requires a trained, dexterous hand.

Requires a Dexterity score of 16 to use.