Cestus
System: Pathfinder | Category: Weapon | Slot: Main Hand | SRD
Key Stats
- Price: 5 gp
- Weight: 1 lb.
- Source: Ultimate Equipment
- Damage (M): 1d4
- Damage (S): 1d3
- Critical: 19-20/×2
- Proficiency: Light Melee Weapons
Additional Stats
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Cestus |
| Type | item |
| Weapon Dmg (L) | 1d6 |
| Weapon Dmg (T) | 1d2 |
| Weapon Price | 5 gp |
| Weapon Special | Monk, see text |
Description
The cestus is a glove of leather or thick cloth that covers the wielder from mid-finger to mid-forearm. The close combat weapon is reinforced with metal plates over the fingers and often lined with wicked spikes along the backs of the hands and wrists. While wearing a cestus, you are considered armed and your unarmed attacks deal lethal damage. If you are proficient with a cestus, you can have your unarmed strikes deal bludgeoning or piercing damage. Monks are proficient with the cestus. When using a cestus, your fingers are mostly exposed, allowing you to wield or carry items in that hand, but the constriction of the weapon at your knuckles gives you a –2 penalty on all precision-based tasks involving that hand (such as opening locks). A cestus can't be disarmed.
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