How to Build: Dancing weapons?

[Cantriped]

Also upon reflection, not so sure the wand even needs Trigger at all, the description implies the "Wand" is just an Indirect Power that can be activated from wherever the Foci is (usually your hand, but useful if you are disarmed, or need to plan a distraction).

 

Bixby Wand:  RKA 1d6, Indirect (Origin is Wand; +1/4) (19 APs); Incantations (-1/4), OIF (-1/2) 50 Charges Which Never Recover (-1 1/2).

[Christopher R Taylor]

You'd need indirect if you use a wand as a floating cannon or one that makes, say, fire leap from the ground or nearby fire sources.  But if its a trigger, the trigger by definition allows attacks to go off indirectly.

[archer]

I’d do a dancing sword something like this:

 

PS: Tap Dancing 

PS: Ballroom Dancing 

PS: Latin Dancing 

PS: Folk Dancing 

 

Flight 3” (Only up to 6 feet high)

 

An embedded “Computer” enchantment so it knows when to start and stop, plus where it has room to dance (some dances like the tango and quick step require a lot of room).

 

If you want it to dance to musical accompaniment, some GM’s might make you buy normal hearing for it but I’d throw that in for free. YMMV

 

Come to think of it, you could buy it as a vehicle since many dances require that you pick up and move your partner.

[Christopher R Taylor]

But how would you simulate the dosado or the promenade? 

[archer]

30 minutes ago, Christopher R Taylor said:

But how would you simulate the dosado or the promenade? 

You need a partner for many dance moves. A partner could be another dancing weapon or a person who just grabs the weapon to be “in hold”.

 

Obviously, holding both ends of a dancing staff would be easier than holding both ends of a dancing sword. And I don’t even want to think about the complications of a partner mounting and dismounting during lifts for a dancing sword.

 

I think the topic is more the capability to dance than to have an opportunity to do some particular dance move. Professional dancers are still professional dancers even when they don’t have a partner or when they aren’t dancing at all.

[archer]

Maybe add PS: Singing as well.

 

Then your weapon can work for tips by performing musicals in every tavern you visit.

 

A singing and dancing sword has got to have more “wow” factor for an audience than just a dancing sword.