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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 9677600" data-attributes="member: 57383">Hmm… If the bielgorad snags an opponent's leg with the hook instead of their neck wouldn't that trip them up?How's this for a writeup: Crook (Ex): A bielgorad's shepherd's crook is a melee weapon that is a Large +2 one-handed magical weapon when wielded by a bielgorad. In the hands of any other creature, it functions as a Medium masterwork halberd that only does normal damage against charging opponents when set against a charge. The crook has a ×3 critical multiplier and is equipped with a complex blade that does 1d10 piercing or slashing damage. It has a large hook that can be used to make trip attacks or strike for 1d10 nonlethal bludgeoning damage with a –4 penalty on your attack roll. If the crook's wielder is tripped during a trip attempt, they can drop the crook to avoid being tripped. When striking with the hook, a bielgorad can choose to do nonlethal or lethal damage without penalty as if the bielgorad was making unarmed attacks with the Improved Unarmed Strike feat. A bielgorad can use the hook of a shepherd's crook to make grapple attacks against creatures of a smaller size category than itself. When grappling with the hook, a bielgorad is treated as if it had the Improved Grapple feat: it does not provoke an attack of opportunity to make a touch attack to start a grapple and gains a +4 bonus on all grapple checks. If the bielgorad chooses the "Damage Your Opponent" option while grappling with a crook it inflicts the hook's 1d10 bludgeoning damage instead of the bielgorad's normal unarmed strike damage. In addition, whenever a bielgorad pins an opponent with its crook or makes a successful grapple check against an opponent already pinned, the opponent must succeed at a DC 14 Will saving throw or be stunned? for 1 minute? or until the opponent is released from the hook's grapple. An opponent stunned by a bielgorad's shepherd's crook is still able to attempt "Escape from Grapple" opposed grapple checks but is unable to take any other action. The save DC is Charisma-based. Thought about making the pinned opponent paralyzed, but a paralyzed opponent can still cast spells if they're mental only which wouldn't match with the description's "While entrapped, a victim cannot cast magic or fight."</blockquote>

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