e Grappling Hook


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Line-art drawing of a grappling hook. Pearson Scott Foresman, donated to the Wikimedia Foundation

donated to the Wikimedia Foundation

Core Rulebook

Throwing a grappling
hook requires a ranged attack roll, treating the hook as a thrown weapon with
a range increment of 10 feet. Objects with ample places to catch the hook
are AC 5.

The following additional
information on Grappling Hooks comes from Pirates of the Inner Sea:

A grappling hook is usually
thought of as a climbing instrument, but is also used to grapple ships and
draw them close before a boarding action.

Grappling hooks bite
deeply into the wood of the railing. It takes 1 minute to pry a grappling
hook free. The rope attached to a grappling hook can be cut, but pirates often
target the rigging and masts to make it difficult to remove the hooks. Tying
off the rope of a grappling hook is a move action.

A grappling hook can
also be used as a ranged weapon.

If you are proficient
in the grappling hook, it is a grappling weapon. On a successful critical
You can attempt a combat maneuver check to grapple your opponent as a free
or damage the creature on your turn.

You are still considered
the grapple. If you move far enough away to be out of the weapons reach,
the grapple ends.

A grappling hooks
weight includes the weight of 50 feet of hemp rope. It can be reduced by using
shorter or lighter rope.

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