Garrote

A garrote is a length of wire or thin rope with wooden handles at both ends. The wire is placed across a victim’s throat and crossed behind the neck; when the handles are pulled tight, the garrote strangles him.

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• Description: In order for you to use a garrote, your opponent must be helpless or unaware of you. You must make a grapple check (though you avoid the –4 penalty for not having two hands free) to successfully begin garroting your opponent. Sneak attack damage does not apply to a garrote. Your garroted opponent must make a concentration check (DC 20 + your CMB + level of the spell he’s casting) to cast a spell with a verbal component, use a command word item, or use any magic requiring speech. You gain the following additional option when grappling with a garrote.
• Choke: You cut off your target’s air supply so he has to hold his breath (see Suffocation, and the Swim skill for additional information). Any round you do not maintain the choke, your opponent can take a breath and restart when he has to begin making Constitution checks.
• Weapon Feature(s): choke

Two-Handed Melee Weapons Exotic
Weapon	Cost	Damage (S)	Damage (M)	Critical	Range Increment	Weight	Type	Special
Garrote	3 gp	1d4	1d6	x2	— –	1 lb.	Slashing	grapple, see text

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