Armor Spikes- the universal solution?

[melkoriii]

Armor spikes are used as a off hand weapon. Meaning at the off hand penalties and replaces your off hand attack. They do not prevoke a AoO. They can be enchanted as a weapon and you can take weapon spacific feats with them.

As useing a Greatsword and armor spikes. A Two handed attack is a primary attack, you are left with your off hand attack that normaly is unavalable. But with armor spikes it is avalable. You get all the penaltise of useing two weapons when useing them in a Full attack action.

2H sword is at +Str damage and armor spikes are at 1/2 Str damage following the rule for 2WF. You get the normal negitives to attacks as with 2WF.


Its very simple.

 

[Starfox]

As useing a Greatsword and armor spikes. A Two handed attack is a primary attack, you are left with your off hand attack that normaly is unavalable. But with armor spikes it is avalable. You get all the penaltise of useing two weapons when useing them in a Full attack action.

As a DM, I would never let a character with armor spikes use a greatsword and and off-hand attack. But I would probably let someone make an AoO when armed with a bow, or at 5 ft. when armed with a reach weapon.

Sort of nullifies the ûber-cheesiness of the Spiked Chain.

 

[Darklone]

Spikes

I would allow spikes as off hand attack if you use a greatsword, but give them reach 0ft. There you go with the desc in the PHB and the enemy gets an AoO if you use them.
For the guy who talked about the psios bite attacks... : You don't get an additional attack for those. You just get a new primary weapon.

For realities sake: Spikes could be useful. If someone closes in and you use a greatsword, it would be nice to push him back with those. But that's what grappling means IMHO.

 

[Xahn'Tyr]

A Two handed attack is a primary attack, you are left with your off hand attack that normaly is unavalable. But with armor spikes it is avalable.

Its very simple.

Yes, that would be very simple IF you could post the page that you are reading this from. I can't seem to find the rule in the books that says armor spikes make your offhand attack available when wielding a two-handed weapon; but I could find rules that say you can't use both a two-handed weapon and a light weapon at the same time. I can also find a rule that says armor spikes count as a light weapon. That seems equally simple, and is actually in the rules as written.

What you have is a very simple House Rule.