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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 6918596" data-attributes="member: 6799649">Among the many things that are wrong is the fact that hitting to do damage with a hammer would be done differently than using a hammer to restrain.When you want to do damage, you hit with the head (it also does bludgeoning damage, not piercing, so no 'pinning to the ground'). But that would not restrain, that would bounce the target away.To restrain, you'd have to get the shaft of the hammer on the target's neck, and position the head of the hammer past the neck (so it couldn't slide out). You cannot have a single attack that would both do damage AND be part of any restraining.But, yeah, simple solutions are: it's an action to use one, two actions to use both, and these are separate actions to the one's used to attack. And, on the rare occasions that it actually worked, the target would activate the rod itself and walk away with the rod.As for the social implications, it's in black and white in the description of the rod that it takes an action to activate. He cannot argue that it doesn't. He has no leg to stand on, and the group will have to agree when you show them the book.He might not like it, but he cannot accuse you of being unfair because you use the rules for the item exactly as described.</blockquote>