# Flexible Weapons *The Fantasy Armory, Eighty Melee and Thrown Weapons for Exodus NDS. Source: https://exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/fantasy-armory/flexible-weapons* Flexible weapons buy control and pay for it in reliability. Damage is the lowest in the book, and most entries will not drop anyone unaided. **Ensnare** is the family's reason to exist: it takes a target's turn rather than its wounds, and no other family carries it in quantity. **Wrapping** is the second, and it ignores a shield's Defensive and Deflection entirely, which against a shield wall is worth more than damage. **Inaccurate** appears on nearly every entry. These are support weapons, best carried alongside something that does the killing. **Skill:** Light Melee unless noted. At tables using a single undifferentiated Melee skill, use Melee throughout. ##### Garrote Strangling Wire, Bowstring, Silken Cord
+0 2 Engaged 0
Light Melee 50 Restricted Crushing Concealable 3, Ensnare 2, Awkward 3
A wire or cord between two handles, carried wound around the hand or sewn into a belt. **Concealable 3** is the highest rating in the book and Crit 2 among the lowest, which suits a weapon used on an unprepared target. **Awkward 3** applies against anyone facing the wielder, in a crowd, or in a confined space, which covers most combat. Treat the garrote as a tool for an unopposed kill rather than a weapon for a fight. ##### Whip Bullwhip, Sjambok, Cat-o'-Nine-Tails, Knout
+0 5 Engaged, Short 1
Light Melee 30 Common Cutting Reach, Ensnare 1, Disarming 1, Inaccurate 1
Braided leather with a weighted fall. It does no meaningful damage to anyone wearing a coat, and it will take a blade out of a hand at eight feet. Carried by drovers, slavers, and duellists who intend to humiliate rather than kill. ##### Net Retiarius Net, Casting Net, Gladiator Net, Throwing Net
— — Engaged, Short 2
Light Ranged 35 Common — Ensnare 3, Limited Ammo 1, Inaccurate 1
**A net deals no damage and has no damage type.** It does one thing, and **Ensnare 3** is the strongest immobilisation in this book, matched only by the mancatcher. Thrown once, then it is on the ground and someone has to go and get it. Retrieving a net is a maneuver if it is at your feet and an errand if it is not. ##### Weighted Chain Kusari-Fundo, Manriki, Chain Whip, Surujin
+1 4 Engaged, Short 2
Light Melee 70 Military Crushing Reach, Ensnare 1, Wrapping, Inaccurate 1
Four feet of heavy links, often with a weight at one end. It reaches, it tangles, and it goes around a shield. It is also close to unaimable, and it will not put anyone down on its own. ##### Meteor Hammer Liú Xīng Chuí, Rope Dart, Flying Hammer
+3 3 Engaged, Short 3
Heavy Melee 110 Military Crushing Reach, Wrapping, Knockdown, Momentum 1, Inaccurate 2, Awkward 2
A heavy iron ball on a long chain, kept moving in a circle and released along its arc. The highest damage in the family and by far the least controllable. **Inaccurate 2** is the worst accuracy in the book, shared only with the urumi, and the weapon genuinely wants the wielder to be moving when it lands. ##### Three-Section Staff Sanjiegun, Three-Part Staff, Chain Staff, Jointed Staff
+2 4 see profiles 2
Heavy Melee 45 Rare Crushing Versatile, Inaccurate 1
Folded +2 Crushing Defensive 1
Extended +2 Crushing Reach, Wrapping; loses Defensive 1
Three hardwood batons joined end to end by two short chains. Folded, two sections lie along the forearm and the third is held, and the whole thing is a staff with a hinge in it. Swung out, it is six feet of weapon with a free end moving faster than any solid haft can move. Neither profile is the good one. Folded, it covers the wielder. Extended, it reaches, it goes around a shield, and it covers nothing at all. **Inaccurate 1** applies either way, because the free end goes where its own momentum sends it. ##### Kusarigama Chain Sickle, Sickle-and-Weight, Kama-and-Chain
+2 3 see profiles 3
Heavy Melee 120 Rare see profiles Versatile, Inaccurate 1
Chain Crushing Reach, Ensnare 1
Sickle Cutting Vicious 1; loses Reach and Ensnare
A short sickle on one end of a weighted chain. The chain entangles at distance and the sickle finishes at contact, and switching between them is a maneuver. The only weapon in the family that can actually kill someone unassisted, and it needs two hands and a great deal of practice.
##### Urumi Chuttuval, Whip Sword, Coiled Blade, Belt Sword
+2 3 Engaged, Short 1
Heavy Melee 60 Rare Cutting Reach, Sweep 2, Concealable 2, Inaccurate 2, Unwieldy 4
A band of spring steel as long as a whip and no thicker than a ribbon, sharpened along both edges and worn wound around the waist beneath a sash. Drawn, it is a whip with an edge. Worn, it is a belt. Nothing else in this book puts **Reach**, **Sweep 2**, and **Concealable 2** on one line. No other weapon can be carried openly into a room where weapons are not permitted and still threaten two people at Short range. The rest of the line is the bill. **Inaccurate 2** is the worst accuracy in the book, shared only with the meteor hammer, and **Unwieldy 4** means a wielder below Agility 4 adds Bane to every check with it. An urumi in unpractised hands is a hazard mostly to the person holding it.
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