Osmium Mace

There are all sorts of ways to make weapons more effective, but in the end, if you have a strong arm delivering the blow, all you really need in order to be effective is something with lots of mass and inertia that will pound a huge amount of force into the chest of whoever you’re hitting. The club does this job pretty well, but if you have the arm strength for it, having extra weight at the end of the shaft can really get momentum swinging, delivering a huge payload of kinetic energy to the target. Enter the osmium mace, which some say is over the top in terms of its pain-delivering mass, while others say that’s just the way they like it. Osmium is the most dense metal on earth, but its brittle nature makes it unsuitable for the construction of a weapon. It’s just fine, though, for a ball on the interior of a mace head, especially when it is alloyed to make it more durable and then surrounded by a titanium shell to help diffuse some of the shock of impact away from the core. The result is a weapon that is difficult for the average person to lift up, let alone swing. When you get up to ork or troll levels of strength, you can deliver devastating blows that make you look like a character straight out of mythology.

ACC	REACH	DMG	AP	AVAIL	COST
4*	2	(STR+4)P	-1	14R	5,500 ¥

*Accuracy decreases to 3 when wielded by someone with Strength of 4 or lower and increases to 5 when wielded by someone with Strength of 7 or higher. DV changes to (STR+2)P when wielded by someone with Strength of 4 or lower and increases to (STR+6)P when wielded by someone with Strength of 7 or higher.

Item type

Weapon, Melee

Weight

20 lbs

Dimensions

62.23 cm

Base Price

5,500 ¥

Raw materials & Components

Osmium head alloyed with steel, steel and polymer shaft