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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4103833" data-attributes="member: 58197">You risk major imbalances if you do; there may well be a way to use those mechanics for horrible twinkery.Basically, imposing a -10 penalty on all associated rolls is a way of allowing the players to attempt stuff like this if they absolutely insist on doing so, but making it utterly sub-optimal so you don't have to worry about balance.  It's a safety net so you can deal with this kind of thing on the fly.If a player really wants his/her PC to be able to use a goblin harpoon effectively, that's when you sit down with the player and hash out some mechanics for a) what will be required to learn to use the harpoon, and b) how it will work in player hands.  But that's not something you want to be doing in the middle of an adventure.</blockquote>