Improving the Tonfa

[Sindri]

Originally Posted by DanHoward

It is for my players.

Well games are pretty different. In my experience when given a choice between a weapon with high maximum effectiveness and a weapon with lower maximum effectiveness but greater resource efficiency the best decision is for PCs to take the former because they can actually afford to sink resources into it until they hit the cap and operate in dangerous enough circumstances that the marginal increase in peak power is necessary while many NPCs will end up picking the latter.

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

Punching doesn't do thr cr unless you're expecting your jutte to double as brass knuckles.

It's a fist load and operates like any other punching improving device.

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

I'd argue that for most baton users, Disarming comes up never. Baton-using high-skill PCs are highly unrepresentative.

Representation doesn't matter within the contest of PCs.

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

Seems to me like the Quarterstaff is likely to be king in that context...

Quarterstaff is strong but other options such as the jutte or nunchaku are defensible.

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

It seems like you're trying to figure out what merits of the tonfa make it suitable for a purpose that there's no evidence that it is at all suitable for.

Well I can't know whether people have ideas for what niche it might occupy until I ask them. Plus kobujutsuka seem to perceive utility in it when they already train things like the bo, nunchaku and sai.

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

I strongly disagree with that, but if that's how your group approaches things we'll have to take that into consideration...

I'd appreciate that.