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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3467737" data-attributes="member: 1656">I didn't write it. "right- or left-handed" is what the sentence says.Can you arbitrarily choose to change your height or your eye colour?p41.Just how and when can you use armor spikes? If you’reusing two weapons already, can you use armor spikes tomake a second off-hand attack? What if you’re using aweapon and a shield? Can you use the armor spikes for anoff-hand attack and still get a shield bonus to Armor Classfrom the shield? What if you use a two-handed weapon?Can you wield the weapon in two hands and still make anoff-hand attack with the spikes? What are your options forusing armor spikes in a grapple? Can you use them whenpinned? If you have another light weapon, can you use thatand your armor spikes when grappling?When you fight with more than one weapon, you gain anextra attack. (Improved Two-Weapon Fighting and greaterTwo-Weapon Fighting give you more attacks with the extraweapon.) Armor spikes are a light weapon that can be used asthe extra weapon.If you attack only with your armor spikes during your turn(or use the armor spikes to make an attack of opportunity), youuse them just like a regular weapon. If you use the full attackaction, you can use armor spikes as either a primary lightweapon or as an off-hand light weapon, even if you’re using ashield or using a two-handed weapon. In these latter two cases,you’re assumed to be kicking or kneeing your foe with yourarmor spikes.Whenever you use armor spikes as an off-hand weapon,you suffer all the penalties for attacking with two weapons (seeTable 8–10 in the Player’s Handbook). When using armorspikes along with a two-handed weapon, it is usually best touse the two-handed weapon as your primary attack and thearmor spikes as the off-hand weapon. You can use the armorspikes as the primary weapon and the two-handed weapon asthe off-hand attack, but when you do so, you don’t get thebenefit of using a light weapon in your off hand.You cannot, however, use your armor spikes to make asecond off-hand attack when you’re already fighting with twoweapons. If you have a weapon in both hands and armor spikes,you can attack with the weapons in your hands (and not withthe armor spikes) or with one of the weapons in your hands andthe armor spikes (see the description of spiked armor inChapter 7 of the Player’s Handbook).When grappling, you can damage your foe with your spikesby making a regular grapple check (opposed by your foe’scheck). If you succeed, you deal piercing damage to your foe(see Table 7–5 in the Player’s Handbook) rather than theunarmed strike damage you’d normally deal when damagingyour foe with a grapple check. Since you can use armor spikesas a light weapon, you can simply use them to attack your foe.You suffer a –4 penalty on your attack roll when attacking witha light weapon in a grapple (see page 156 in the Player’sHandbook), but if your foe is bigger or stronger than you, thismight prove a better tactic than trying to deal damage through agrapple check because there is no opposed roll to make—youjust have to hit your opponent’s Armor Class. You can’t attackwith two weapons when grappling, even when one of thoseweapons is armor spikes (see the section on grappling inChapter 8 of the Player’s Handbook).You can’t attack and damage your foe if he has you pinned.If you break the pin and avoid being pinned again, you can goback to attacking your foe. If your attack bonus is high enoughto allow multiple attacks, you might break the pin and then useyour remaining attack to damage your foe. To accomplish this,you must first use an attack to break the pin. You can break apin using the Escape Artist skill, but trying to do so is astandard action for you; once you use the standard action toattempt escape, you can’t make any more attacks during yourturn.-Hyp.</blockquote>

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