Swordmace (3.5e Equipment)

It's a mace! It's a sword! It's a swordmace!

A thick sword somewhere between a shortsword and a longsword, it has no guard over it's hilt save for the thickening blade. The tip of the sword ends in a large star shaped weight with dull armor piercing spikes along them. The end acts as a mace while the blade, powered by the weight of its tip, is used in heavy axe-like swings ideal for chopping. With it, you can bludgeon, slash, or do both types of damage at once by adjusting how far you extend yourself.

As a type of mace, it is ideal for punching through heavy armor. You ignore up to 1 point of armor bonus to AC on your target for each attack you would gain from BAB (to a maximum of 4 AC at BAB +16 and beyond).

Effects which apply to either light and heavy maces, and to short swords and longswords, also apply to the swordmace.