Pristine Plasma Glaive

Weapon Profile

Category

Energy

Damage

2d8 plasma

Range

Melee · 0–5 ft

Handling

One power cell runs the head for six hours. Unpowered it is a glaive dealing 1d10 slashing.

Grade

III · Pristine

Rarity

Rare

Tier

IV · Spacefaring

Training

Energy Weapons

Cost

6100

Weight

9 lb

Without training in energy weapons, you add no proficiency bonus to attacks with this and roll them at disadvantage. Proficiency

To make: 3,050 gm of materials and 25 days of work, at a fabricator: a starport yard, an industrial district or a ship's machine shop, by a crafter with Rift Affinity 3, finished with a DC 15 check. To repair: 763 gm and 7 days. Downtime

Properties

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• weaponSomething you attack with. Held in a hand, and covered by a weapon proficiency.
• heavyUnwieldy for a Small creature, which attacks with it at disadvantage.
• reachAdds 5 feet to your reach when you attack with it.
• two-handedBoth hands are needed to attack with it. You cannot hold anything else.
• power-cellRuns on a charged cell. Flat, it reverts to whatever it is without power.

A glaive with a plasma emitter in the head, a containment field run down a six-foot haft and the cell at the butt for balance. You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. The containment geometry re-cut by somebody who understood it, and the edge now bites where the old one glanced.

Grades

The same object, worked to a better standard. The grade is the rung; the bonus is what the rung is worth at the table.

1. Grade I · Standard
2. Grade II · Refined +1
3. Grade III · Pristine +2
4. Grade IV · Masterwork +3