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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3374369" data-attributes="member: 4937">I have, but mostly because it fails a versimultude test, not because I think its particularly unbalancing.  It's cheesy, so whether it might be broken is less of an issue to me.  My feeling is that since no real world chain weapon had nearly the impact and popularity that the spike chain has in 3rd edition, that the mechanics for the weapon must by badly wrong.  In particular, its a weapon that just BEGS for fumble checks like no other weapon in the game, and its completely unclear to me how you would fight along side someone with one of these.Based on its real world impact, I'd rather have the staff - say with the addition of a feat or two - use the spiked chain mechanics rather than the spiked chain.</blockquote>