Adding Hooks to Swords

[Polydamas]

Originally Posted by Sindri

Martial Arts says that "Any swung weapon, even a sword, can have a small hook to permits the use of the Hook technique". It doesn't include any PC relevant disadvantages which seems... odd. Can anyone show me what a sword that can do everything the Hook technique can without any downside in, say, thrusting looks like? Alternatively is there a reason it won't be added to literally every sword a PC purchases absent them being broke or matters of style in world?

The scabbard for the sword with a hook will be much more difficult to make and probably heavier and slower to draw from. In a low-tech game, the GM is well in his rights to have smiths either refuse to make something strange or smile, nod, and make what they usually do with a token attempt at the novelty.