Swords into Plowshares

Author	Various
Publisher	Sean K. Reynolds Games
Publish date	2002
OGL Section 15	sip

The material below is Open Game Content

Fists of Fury

A hero wearing fists of fury often starts a battle by commanding the savagely spiked gauntlet on his right hand to crackle with blue-white electricity. It then thrums with the magical power that courses through it and that it bestows on its wielder. The hero then wades into the fight, swinging hard and striking with the speed of a violent storm. The surprise comes when he squarely strikes a foe with the matching gauntlet on his left fist, which seems innocuous when compared to its flashier twin. At that moment, a deafening crack of thunder rolls out from the left fist as if the hero bears the very fury of the heavens in his hands.

Fists of fury are made of dark leather covered with spikes made of razor-sharp, blued steel that are the color of an angry thunderhead. The metal is engraved with dwarven runes. Favored by dwarves, gnomes, and other tunnel-dwellers who prefer to fight in enclosed spaces, fists of fury are a pair of matched +3 spiked gauntlets of speed. They are fashioned so that the right gauntlet also has the shocking burst weapon special ability while the left has the thundering weapon special ability. The right is called a fist of lightning, and the left a fist of thunder.

Fists of fury are most often seen on the hands of clerics of weather deities. Such figures are rare in dwarven or gnome society, since those who live underground are often oblivious to the effects the surface world’s weather can have upon their homes.

Fist of Lightning: Caster Level: 10th; Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor; call lightning or lightning bolt; haste; Market Price: 162,305 gp; Cost to Create: 81,305 gp + 6,480 XP.

Fist of Thunder: Caster Level: 9th; Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, blindness/deafness, haste; Market Price: 162,305 gp; Cost to Create: 81,305 gp + 6,480 XP.