Spiked Chain - AKA "The Cheese Whip"

[Empirate]

Add a feat that eliminates the can't fight up close limit on other reach weapons.

That feat already exists, and it sucks balls compared to simply wearing spiked armor.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Oh, short haft absolutely sucks. It's also not the same thing as "alternate attacks between reach and adjacent at will."

Hell, I took Short Haft and turned it into a weapon property for the points-based system my friend made up for creating new weapons. It was worth about the same as "+2 on disarm checks" would be. I made a spear weapon using that trait, was not the least bit overpowered.

 

[Drowbane]

The Monk class in the PHB isn't about chanting Latin and hitting yourself in the head with a board. For the typical quasi-medieval European setting, Monks just do not satisfy the appropriate tropes... thought at least in this case, players are punished mechanically for effectively breaking the verisimilitude of the setting.

XP worthy!!

Though I do agree with [MENTION=72335]Ashtagon[/MENTION]'s post about the spiked chain "not fitting".

 

[Jackinthegreen]

If the only reason the spiked chain is banned is because it's silly to actually wield a spiked chain, then you're not doing proper refluffing. Switch it over to bludgeoning damage and call it a war chain or something.