Kusari-gama

[Staldin*Freefall]

In the DMG this is listed as a martial weapon with many of the properties of the Spiked Chain. How well does this work to give the players a weapon (highly optional albeit) that is ighly abuseable and doesn't even cost the feat that the Spiked Chain does to use? Is this handled differently in the OA book?

 

[whatisitgoodfor]

In OA, its much different. For one thing, they realized that making a reach/no reach weapon that was medium sized was a major mistake.

It's now a double/reach weapon. If its used as a double weapon, you only threaten 5 feet, and if used as a reach weapon, only one of the heads can attack. They also increased the size to large. Bye bye Kisura Gama and shield combo.

Its damage is 1d6/1d4 S/B.

 

[Wolf72]

it's also been errata'd to large size in the DMG errata