Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27447621-20180223225208/@comment-25396609-20180723174411

A spear is a piercing weapon, glaives and naginatas, and guandaos are sort of like a sword on a stick and thus more slashing oriented.

Then you have your halberds/poleaxes which are hacking weapons.

What you would classify a machete on a stick as depends on what KIND of machete we're talking about.

Now, I've got something I've been working on the last couple days.

The idea here is that the slots in the main knuckle section have a powerful magnet in the base attached in their bottom. The button on the side is attached to a bar which runs across the bottom, pushing it moves the magnets out of alignment with the holes to release whatever is mounted into them.

The primary ammunition for the weapon is the object in the middle, they are small Dust crystals mounted to a metal bullet-like cartridge in which the primer has been replaced with a magnet (to facilitate use with the knuckles) and function like studs, as you would see in studded brass knuckles. Rather than being set off by a trigger, they are set off on contact when the user punches something (but can also be used for casting Dust spells, depending on what character I give them to). Additional rounds are carried in large cylindrical dispensers worn on a belt.

If the user doesn't want to waste Dust, (or runs out of studs) they can remove the loaded studs and mount the knuckle axe attachments.

I may write up a proper sheet for them at some point, might not. I wanted to do something with dust based brass knuckles, and decided on a simpliefied system with a minimum of moving parts.