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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 3029386" data-attributes="member: 1331">The linked page's rule for bolas makes them a bit too strong for my taste. If you get hit and fail a Reflex save, you're Pinned-- which means totally out of action except for V-only spells. If you have a low Strength bonus and no ranks in Escape Artist, you're screwed until somebody comes to help.As written, the bolas are a pretty nearly perfect wizard-suppression device. In that role they're even more effective than hold person, because wizards tend to have lower Reflex than Will saves, and the bola's save DC is probably higher to boot. Barbs just add injury to insult; that's like acid arrow and hold person at the same time.I'd change the effect from "pinned" to "grappled." That will still hamper a caster significantly, but will at least give them a chance to act, and it lets opponents prepare once they know what's coming. (Since you can use light weapons in a grapple, if you had a dagger in hand you could use it to cut yourself free.) I might lower the escape DCs to 15, as well.</blockquote>