The Quintessential Barbarian

The Quintessential Barbarian cover

Author	Robert Schwalb
Series	Quintessential Series
Publisher	Mongoose Publishing
Publish date	2003
Pages	128
ISBN	1-903980-92-5
OGL Section 15	qbbn

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Wood Weapons

Wood weapons persist even into the default technology level of the d20 system. These few weapons include the quarterstaff, club, nunchaku and the great club. Most practice weapons are wooden to reduce the risk of injury. In rare cases, or in societies with limited resources, smiths construct weapons out of wood as weapons of war. While wood weapons are the most flexible as to the versatility of weaponry types, they are the worst material for performance and results. Wood weaponry exhibits the following features.

Base Cost: Wood weapons are 90% cheaper than their metal counterparts.
Weight: Wood weapons weigh 50% less than the metal versions.
Attacks: As these weapons are light and generally nonlethal, they incur a -3 penalty to all attacks.
Damage: For the same reasons justifying the attack penalties, these weapons are not truly effective against armour. Wood weapons have a -2 modifier to all damage rolls.
Hardness: Wood weapons have 50% of the standard weapon’s hardness.
Hit Points: Wood weapons have 50% of the standard weapon’s hit points.
Special Rules: If a character wishes to inflict nonlethal damage with a wood-constructed weapon, he may do so at no penalty. This benefit does not apply to those wooden weapons listed in the SRD. All wood weapons are type Bludgeoning. Therefore, these weapons have a Critical threat on 20 for x2 damage.