Weapon Special Abilities
The following are new weapon special abilities. Weapons with a special ability must have at least a +1 enhancement bonus.
Answering
Price +1 bonus; Slotnone; CL 7th; Weight —; Aura moderate enchantment
This ability can be placed only on melee weapons. For the purpose of the opportune parry and riposte deed, the weapon's enhancement bonus increases by 4 (to a maximum of +5).
Construction Requirements
Cost +1 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, good hope, creator must have the opportune parry and riposte deed
Blood-Hunting
Price +1 bonus; Slotnone; CL 8th; Weight —; Aura moderate conjuration
A blood-hunting weapon excels against enemies with the bloodline class feature. Against a designated foe, the weapon's enhancement bonus is 2 better than its actual bonus. It also deals an additional 2d6 points of damage against such foes. When combined with abilities like bane or spirit-hunting, the enhancement bonus increases granted by these abilities don't stack, but an extra 1d6 points of damage are added to the additional damage for each special ability beyond the first. (For example, a bane blood-hunting weapon would deal 3d6 additional points of damage, and a bane blood-hunting spirit-hunting weapon would deal 4d6 additional points of damage.) To randomly determine a weapon's designated foe, roll on the following table. Other designated foes are possible, but most of these weapons are tuned against creatures with the following bloodlines.
| d% | Designated Foe |
|---|
| 01–05 | Aberrant |
| 06–15 | Abyssal |
| 16–30 | Arcane |
| 31–35 | Celestial |
| 36–40 | Destined |
| 41–50 | Draconic |
| 51–60 | Elemental |
| 61–70 | Fey |
| 71–80 | Infernal |
| 81–90 | Undead |
| 91–95 | Other |
| 96–100 | All |
Construction Requirements
Cost +1 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, summon monster I
Bloodsong
Price +1 bonus; Slotnone; CL 6th; Weight —; Aura moderate transmutation
This special ability can be placed only on slashing or piercing melee weapons. While the wielder benefits from a raging song performance (whether her own or from an ally), this weapon gains the keen weapon special ability. If the wearer confirms a critical hit while under the effects of a raging song, she gains 1d10 temporary hit points that last until they're reduced to 0 or the raging song ends, whichever comes first. If the weapon's critical multiplier is ×3, add 2d10 temporary hit points instead; if the multiplier is ×4, add 3d10 temporary hit points instead. While its powers are active, the weapon vibrates and makes a barely audible hum that rises to a shriek of triumph when it confirms a critical hit.
Construction Requirements
Cost +1 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, keen edge, creator must have the raging song class feature
Brawling
Price +1 bonus; Slotnone; CL 7th; Weight —; Aura moderate enchantment
This weapon special ability can be applied only to brass knuckles, a cestus, a sap, or a light bludgeoning weapon. The wielder of this weapon gains an enhancement bonus on combat maneuver checks equal to the enhancement bonus of the weapon.
Construction Requirements
Cost +1 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Improved Trip, guidance
Confounding
Price +1 bonus; Slot none<; CL 5th; Weight —; Aura faint transmutation
When the wielder confirms a critical hit with a confounding weapon, she can spend 1 panache point to attempt a combat maneuver to disarm, reposition, sunder, or trip the target as an immediate action, gaining an enhancement bonus on the combat maneuver check equal to the enhancement bonus of the confounding weapon. This combat maneuver does not provoke an attack of opportunity. The wielder can't use panache gained by confirming the critical hit to activate this ability.
Construction Requirements
Cost +1 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, eagle's splendor
Distracting
Price +1 bonus; Slotnone; CL 5th; Weight —; Aura faint enchantment
Weapons with this special ability cause foes struck by them to have difficulty controlling their magic. Any time a creature that has been struck by a distracting weapon would have to succeed at a concentration check to complete a spell or use a special ability or item, the DC of that check increases by 5. This distraction lasts for 1 minute. Once a distracting weapon affects a creature in this way, that creature can't be affected by a distracting effect for 24 hours, though it can be affected by a greater distracting effect.
Construction Requirements
Cost +1 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, qualm
Distracting, Greater
Price +2 bonus; Slotnone; CL 8th; Weight —; Aura moderate enchantment
Weapons with this special ability cause foes struck by them to have exceptional difficulty controlling their magic. Any time a creature that has been struck by a greater distracting weapon would have to succeed at a concentration check to complete a spell or use a special ability or item, the DC of that check increases by 10. This distraction lasts for 1 minute. Once a greater distracting weapon affects a creature in this way, that creature can't be affected by a distracting or greater distracting effect for 24 hours. If a greater distracting weapon is used on a creature already affected by a distracting weapon's effect, the two effects do not stack; the distracting effect ends, and the creature is affected by the greater distracting weapon's effect instead.
Construction Requirements
Cost +2 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, qualm
Exclusionary
Price +3,750 gp; Slotnone; CL 1st; Weight —; Aura faint necromancy
When the wielder of an exclusionary weapon damages a creature with it, she can choose to not affect that creature with any channel energy ability she uses within the next minute. The maximum number of targets the wielder can exclude at one time is equal to her Wisdom bonus plus the enhancement bonus of the exclusionary weapon. If the wielder of an exclusionary weapon strikes a creature that would cause her to go over this limit, she loses the ability to exclude the target she has been excluding for the longest amount of time.
Construction Requirements
Cost +1,875 gp
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Selective Channeling, sanctuary
Exhausting
Price +3 bonus; Slotnone; CL 12th; Weight —; Aura strong necromancy
This ability can be placed only on melee weapons. An exhausting weapon can bring a great weariness to opponents in battle. On a critical hit, the wielder can choose to forgo the additional damage dice to instead sap the struck creature's strength and stamina, causing it to become exhausted. Opponents that are already exhausted don't suffer any additional effects, and creatures immune to the effects of exhaustion or to critical hits are not affected.
Construction Requirements
Cost +3 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, ray of exhaustion
Fate-Stealing
Price +1 bonus; Slotnone; CL 5th; Weight —; Aura faint necromancy
This special ability can be placed only on melee weapons. When a fate-stealing weapon strikes a creature that possesses either grit or panache, the wielder can steal 1 grit point or panache point as a swift action. When the wielder steals a grit or panache point, she can regain 1 grit point or 1 panache point (if the wielder has any). The wielder can use a foe's grit to restore her own panache, or use a foe's panache to restore her own grit.
If the wielder attempts to use this ability against a foe that isn't a grit or panache user, or that currently has no points of grit or panache remaining, the wielder doesn't expend an action, and the attempt fails.
Construction Requirements
Cost +1 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, vampiric touch
Flamboyant
Price +1 bonus; Slotnone; CL 8th; Weight —; Aura moderate transmutation
This special ability can be placed only on one-handed or light piercing melee weapons. A flamboyant weapon has its own magical reservoir of panache that its wielder can spend to use her deeds. Usually this panache is stored within a jewel or other adornment. This reservoir holds 1 panache point, which is refreshed at the start of each day.
Whether or not the wielder of a flamboyant weapon has any deeds, she can always spend 1 panache point from the flamboyant weapon to reroll an attack made with it that missed due to rolling a natural 1. When the wielder does so, she must take the second result, even if it also misses.
Construction Requirements
Cost +1 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, heroism, creator must be a panache user
Flamboyant, Greater
Price +3 bonus; Slotnone; CL 5th; Weight —; Aura moderate transmutation
This special ability can be placed only on one-handed or light piercing melee weapons. A greater flamboyant weapon is nearly identical to a flamboyant weapon, but its reservoir holds 3 panache points instead of 1. A weapon cannot have both this special ability and the flamboyant special ability.
Construction Requirements
Cost +3 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, greater heroism, creator must be a panache user
Flying
Price +5 bonus; Slotnone; CL 16th; Weight —; Aura strong transmutation
This ability can be placed only on melee weapons. A flying weapon acts as a dancing weapon, but while dancing it can be directed to attack foes up to 30 feet away. Additionally, at any time (even if the weapon is not dancing), the last wielder to draw the weapon can will it to return to him as a swift action. It flies up to 500 feet per round to return to its wielder, making one sunder attempt per round to penetrate any barrier it can't fly around and a combat maneuver check (using its last wielder's CMB) against the CMD of any creature that attempts to hold or restrain it (bursting free on a successful check). When it returns to its wielder, the weapon flies into an empty hand or, if its wielder does not have a free hand, falls at his feet. If the weapon can't return after 4 rounds, it falls inert.
Construction Requirements
Cost +5 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, animate object
Fortuitous
Price +1 bonus; Slotnone; CL 8th; Weight —; Aura moderate transmutation
This special ability can be placed only on melee weapons. A fortuitous weapon grants the wielder more attacks of opportunity. Once per round, when the wielder of a fortuitous weapon hits with an attack of opportunity, he can make a second attack of opportunity with this weapon against that foe at a –5 penalty.
Construction Requirements
Cost +1 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, haste
Inspired
Price +1 bonus; Slotnone; CL 7th; Weight —; Aura moderate enchantment
This special ability can be placed only on simple weapons, hand crossbows, rapiers, shortbows, short swords, and sword canes. In the hands of an investigator, an inspired weapon reduces the cost of using inspiration on attack rolls made with the weapon. The weapon's wielder needs to expend only one use of inspiration to augment his attack rolls with this weapon, as with the combat inspiration investigator talent. If the wielder already has the combat inspiration talent, the wielder must still expend one use of inspiration, but in addition to adding the result of the inspiration roll to the attack roll, the investigator adds twice the result of the inspiration roll to the weapon's damage roll.
Construction Requirements
Cost +1 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, good hope
Phantom Ammunition
Price +2,000 gp; Slotnone; CL 7th; Weight —; Aura moderate transmutation
This special ability can be placed only on ammunition. Ammunition with this weapon special ability dissolves 1 round after it is fired. Additionally, if the projectile strikes true, the wound closes after the ammunition disintegrates. The weapon deals normal damage, but leaves behind no visible trace of foul play.
The listed price is for 50 pieces of phantom ammunition.
Construction Requirements
Cost +1,000 gp
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, disintegrate, make whole
Prehensile
Price +2,500 gp; Slotnone; CL 7th; Weight —; Aura moderate enchantment
This special ability can be placed only on a whip. A prehensile whip can, as a swift action, be attached to an object as if it were a grappling hook. The whip can then be used to climb surfaces or to swing across a room or any open area. By spending 1 panache point as a free action, a swashbuckler increases a prehensile whip's reach to 20 feet for a single attack, and can use the whip with his precise strike ability even though it's not a light or one-handed piercing weapon.
Construction Requirements
Cost +1,250 gp
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, rope trick
Sacred
Price +1 bonus; Slotnone; CL 16th; Weight —; Aura strong transmutation
A sacred weapon is filled with divine energy, and acts as a holy symbol. When wielded by a creature that can cast divine spells, the weapon automatically displays an image of that creature's holy symbol, often as a glowing rune on the weapon's blade or along its haft.
Additionally, if the wielder has the blessings class feature, whenever he channels energy, he can choose one ally or ally's weapon within the area of the channeled energy and bestow upon that creature or weapon the benefits of one of his minor blessings at a cost of one use of that blessing.
Construction Requirements
Cost +1 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, imbue with spell ability
Sneaky
Price +5,000 gp; Slot none<; CL 7th; Weight —; Aura moderate necromancy
This special ability can be placed only on a melee weapon. Once per day as a free action, the wielder of a sneaky weapon can designate a single foe within his melee reach as his prey. If the wielder has the sneak attack class feature, he adds his sneak attack damage to the next attack he makes against his prey, even if the wielder is not flanking and the target is not denied its Dexterity bonus to AC, as long as that attack is made before the end of the wielder's next turn. If the wielder is a rogue or slayer with the hunter's surprise talent, he can use that talent one additional time per day.
Construction Requirements
Cost +2,500 gp
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, doom
Spirit-Hunting
Price +1 bonus; Slotnone; CL 8th; Weight —; Aura moderate conjuration
A spirit-hunting weapon excels against enemies with either the mystery or spirit class feature (but has no effect against a shaman who has a temporary bond to the appropriate spirit by way of the wandering spirit class feature or similar effect). Against a designated foe, the weapon's enhancement bonus is 2 better than its actual bonus. It also deals 2d6 additional points of damage against such foes. When combined with abilities like bane or blood-hunting, the enhancement bonus increases granted by these abilities do not stack, but an additional 1d6 points of damage are added to the additional damage for each special ability beyond the first. (For example, a bane spirit-hunting weapon would deal 3d6 additional points of damage, and a bane blood-hunting spirit-hunting weapon would deal 4d6 additional points of damage.) To randomly determine a weapon's designated foe, roll on the following table. Other designated foes are possible, but most of these weapons are tuned against creatures with the following mysteries or spirits.
| d% | Designated Foe |
|---|
| 01–10 | Battle |
| 11–20 | Bones |
| 21–30 | Flame |
| 31–40 | Heavens |
| 41–50 | Life |
| 51–60 | Lore |
| 61–70 | Nature |
| 71–80 | Stone |
| 81–90 | Waves |
| 91–00 | Wind |
Construction Requirements
Cost +1 bonus
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, summon nature's ally I
