[MA/HT] Innocuous Improvised Weapons

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by DangerousThing

Maglight flashlights used to be very popular around here. I own two of the six-cell kinds. It's metal, and can be easily used as a club. I wouldn't want to parry a real sword with it, but otherwise it should be fine. I even have aftermarket ends on the back designed to break though a car window if necessary. In a book I'm writing, the main character is using one when he's walking some girls home from a party. Though he hands it to somebody else before the danger starts.

The six-cell Maglites are almost certainly Axe/Mace and might even count as SMALL ROUND MACE, i.e. be Unbalanced if you hit someone with it full-force. Even well-balanced large Maglites are probably KNOBBED CLUBs rather than using Shortsword skill.

What kind of flashlight, if any, might use Knife skill, i.e. be used with the same skill as a SHORT BATON?

Does a SHORT BATON need to be comparatively long and narrow, like a knife or half a or pool cue, or could you maybe use the Knife skill with a flashlight about the length and weight of a knife-sized machete?

If someone who is very good at using a machete with the Knife skill (i.e. a Falchion-ized LONG KNIFE) were to carry some kind of innocuous object that allowed him to use the same technique, what would that object be?