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Kender weapons for the Pathfinder RPG

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Most kender “weapons” are actually tools of stones at a target in lieu of using a sling; doing so
everyday kender life that only find use as weapons counts as using an improvised weapon.
in times of need. Usually made of soft, supple Instrument: When shaken like a rattle, the battack
leather, wood, and other natural materials, kender creates a steady rythm for music.
weapons can be reconfigured for several uses.
Most kender weapons are hollow, and can be used Bollik: The bollik belt consists of three heavy stone
to hide small objects. Kender weapons also have o r metal balls hang from a series of
use as musical instruments or quick relase hoops attached to
noise makers, as noted in each a buckle and can be pulled
weapon’s description. free with a simple snapping
motion. The bollik can
Normally exotic weapons, be weilded as a
kender weapons are treated flail or thrown like
as simple weapons for all a bolas. You can
kender. Reconfiguring use this weapon
a weapon from one to make a ranged
use to another is a trip attack against
standard action, that an opponent. You
provokes an attack of can’t be tripped
opportunity, unless during your own
noted otherwise. trip attempt when
using a bollik.
Battak: What Instrument: When
original use a spun in the air,
battak might it emits a high
have had is now lost pitched hum.
to history; most suspect the
earliest battaks were nothing more than a Chapak: The chapak is a
child’s noisemaker. Modern battaks are much larger large tool for crushing grain, consisting of two shafts,
and find use most often as walking sticks with all and inner and an outer. The inner shaft is heavy and
sorts of odments attached to it. A battak is made of solid, sometimes made of stone, and sized to slide
a dried and hardened gourd, about two feet long, into the outer shaft. The outer shaft is tough but
hollowed and filled with smoothed stones. The plug hollow ironwood, with “finger” holes periodically
on the narrow can be converted into a handy knife; placed along the shaft. Whole grain is placed in
when flipped upside down the long and sharp bone, the capped end of the outer shaft, the inner shaft
meant to keep the stones from pooling in the base is inserted. Once assembled, the chapak is pounded
of the gourd, as well as smooth them. The smoothed into a funnel-shaped bowl; the movement of the
stones are usable as sling ammunition. It is not innershaft against the outer crushes the grain, which
uncommon for a kender to use her battik to “bat” is forced out the holes into the bowl. The capped end

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