[MA/HT] Innocuous Improvised Weapons

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by clu2415

One option would be to carry an assortment of household tools. Pry bar (maybe as big as a crowbar), claw hammer, screwdriver, would not look out of place together. If you carry a bottle jack, you could have a sturdy jack handle for it. Any largish flashlight would not be out of place among automotive tools for changing a tire in the dark. For that matter, a tire iron.

Originally Posted by cdru

A baseball bat. It can also use Two-Handed Axe/Mace and +1 to damage, when gripped by both hands. GURPS Zombies also has a cricket bat, which can also do double knockback by striking with the flat, at the cost of (0.5) armor divisor

Most of the tools above are perfectly legitimate things to have somewhere in a car, less so if you step out of it.

I was hoping to nail down something with SHORT BATON stats that could be kept in a pocket and couldn't really be called a weapon. Best idea I've got so far is a flashlight that has the right shape and balance. Does anyone know of a specific flashlight model that would use the SHORT BATON stats?

Baseball bats have the disadvantage that outside of a specific sporting context, law enforcement officers, judges and juries have no difficulty declaring them 'weapons' and treating people accordingly for carrying them. Tire irons, in a car, are at least as dangerous, but much more easily explained.