Talk:Sawtooth Ring

How can you pull apart a ring with teeth on the inside if you're wearing the ring? Wouldn't the teeth cut into your flesh? And how can a "band" of wound sawteeth spin and cut stuff if the ring is divided into two halves? Abelhawk (talk) 18:22, 29 September 2017 (UTC)


 * I think the idea is that the blades are curved and fit into the rim of the ring when it is closed.-- 20:31, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The source continues on to say "The band spins furiously for 10 rounds." I wish I could just see what the creator of this item had visualized in mind when he made this up. Abelhawk (talk) 20:35, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The way I read the page, the ring has two halves, that when attached around a rope, as an example, will cut it, by having the teeth on the insider of the "full" ring, rotate around, grinding/cutting whatever the ring is tightened around. PeterWind (talk) 22:04, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * That would make sense, if you also couldn't use it as a melee weapon that dealt 3d6 damage. So weird. Abelhawk (talk) 22:15, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I couldn't say for sure but that's my best guess. I mean I suppose you could fasten the ring around someones hands/ankles/tails or some such and activate it? If applying it through stealth or force. Hard to tell without meassurements for the gadget really. PeterWind (talk) 22:18, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Here's the whole text: " Though it appears to be a normal ring, the two halves of a sawtooth ring can be pulled apart to reveal a band of sharpened teeth wound tightly inside. The band spins furiously for 10 rounds, doing

3d6 points ofdamage per round to anything the teeth touch. Captured rogues often use a sawtooth ring to cut their way free ofbonds, but the rings also have the potential for use as a melee weapon. A DC 20 Reflex save is required to pull the ring open. A character failing this check takes 1 round of damage from the ring before he can get his own fingers out of the way. Once a sawtooth ring has been opened, it cannot be stopped until 10 continuous rounds have passed." :/ Abelhawk (talk) 22:23, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * So the teeth rotate.. When the ring is open? Ok yeah I'm not sure I can follow the logic on that one :/ PeterWind (talk) 22:32, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

For whatever it's worth, Chris Metzen has complained in the past about some of the ridiculous magic item descriptions they came up with. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 00:10, 30 September 2017 (UTC)