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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 6918980" data-attributes="member: 6704184">its great advice here. Forst, ask the following questions: why hammers? How? You can't glue a hammer head on a stick and use it to beat up trolls. Why not just use it as a club? Or a bluegeoning sword, like many stick fighting schools do? How can two sticks lock a person or creature in place, exactly? It's gotta be a grapple check. You're grappling. There is a chance of failure. Grapple check. Not sure if disadvantage is the way to go, but it should be harder than grappling with your hands and limbs. The action thing makes it hard, if it's possible at all. OTOH, It's absurd that it's an action to activate the rod in the first place. Answer may end up being no anyway, but the DM should at least think it through first. Maybe it takes a level of grace and timing represented by spending Ki, and the whole thing is basically a Ki maneuver that grapples the target instead of doing damage. But the enemy will still be able to grapple back, grab the rods, etc. many will be able to just spend an action to squeeze out of the hold.</blockquote>