Cestus

The cestus is a glove of leather or thick cloth that covers the wielder from mid-finger to mid-forearm. The close combat weapon is reinforced with metal plates over the fingers and often lined with wicked spikes along the backs of the hands and wrists. The style is common in Pit Fighting arenas.

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• Benefit: While wearing a cestus, you are considered armed and your unarmed attacks deal normal damage. If you are proficient with a cestus, your unarmed strikes may deal bludgeoning or piercing damage. Monks are proficient with the cestus.
• Drawback: When using a cestus, your fingers are mostly exposed, allowing you to wield or carry items in that hand, but the constriction of the weapon at your knuckles gives you a –2 penalty on all precision-based tasks involving that hand (such as opening locks).
• Weapon Groups close, monk

Light Melee Weapons (Simple)
Weapon	Cost	Damage (S)	Damage (M)	Critical	Range Increment	Weight	Type	Special
Cestus	5 gp	1d3	1d4	19-20×2	—-	1lb.	Bludgeoning or Piercing	monk

Section 15: Copyright Notice

Pathfinder Companion: Adventurer’s Armory. Copyright 2010, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Authors: Jonathan Keith, Hal Maclean, Jeff Quick, Christopher Self, JD Wiker, and Keri Wiker.