Exotic Light Melee
Description
A barbazu beard is an intimidating helm with a full facemask wrought to look like a snarling barbazu's head. Extending from the chin area of the face guard is a razor-sharp blade much like an actual barbazu's beard, usually 8 inches long but sometimes longer.
Cost: 25 gp
Damage
- Small: 1d3
- Medium: 1d4
- Large: 1d6
Critical: x2
Range: Melee
Weight: 5 lb
Damage Type: Bludgeoning Piercing Slashing
Special
Benefit — A barbazu beard can be used as an off-hand weapon that requires no hands to use; thus, a warrior could combine use of a barbazu beared with a two-handed weapon.
Drawback — Attacking with a barbazu beard provokes an attack of opportunity. Because it is so close to the wearer's face, using a barbazu beard against creatures harmful to touch (such as fire elementals and acidic oozes) has the same risks as using a natural weapon or unarmed strike against these creatures.