Adding Hooks to Swords

[Sindri]

Originally Posted by Polydamas

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.

Most of that is just petty annoyances, not things that will actually impact anything. Affecting fast draw is significant though. On the other hand things like Hook Swords don't have a penalty and I can see scabbard constructions that don't feel like they should give a -1.