Maxondaerth
Squire
To my rational mind, I say absolutely, because it's obviously as safe as a sword made the same way would be if not marginally safer for the slightly more padding the open cell would provide. Jeff the player and all around guy highly approves of this weapon.
However, it has long been my understanding that with blunt weapons, axes, and pole arms, the only legal striking surface for those weapons is the head, if you are struck with the shaft of the weapon you don't take the damage. Now, with some of the OHB's I've seen that have minimum size heads, you're getting hit with the head area of the mace more than the little fins going down the side, but anyway. With the club you have there, there's no clearly defined head or shaft, it's all the same thing, but the weapon chart says there's a minimum length area that is designated as the shaft, which is below the head of the weapon. Granted, I've gone back in and looked at the rules around the weapons pages and the only ones that specify "head only counts" rule is spears and javelins, so the RAW does not support this, but that is the way I've always understood the rule worked for these weapons (11 years and counting of understanding). So, would you mind posting that picture up in the ARC section so we can see if this has been a long-standing misconception (AFAIK it's a pretty far spread misconception on the Left Coast if it is, it's not just me) or if we need to put a clarification in the addendum to make sure we all know why they are to be made that way. I'd do it but can't figure out how to capture that diagram you did and post it in my posting, and that's a great cutaway of what we're trying to figure out.
However, it has long been my understanding that with blunt weapons, axes, and pole arms, the only legal striking surface for those weapons is the head, if you are struck with the shaft of the weapon you don't take the damage. Now, with some of the OHB's I've seen that have minimum size heads, you're getting hit with the head area of the mace more than the little fins going down the side, but anyway. With the club you have there, there's no clearly defined head or shaft, it's all the same thing, but the weapon chart says there's a minimum length area that is designated as the shaft, which is below the head of the weapon. Granted, I've gone back in and looked at the rules around the weapons pages and the only ones that specify "head only counts" rule is spears and javelins, so the RAW does not support this, but that is the way I've always understood the rule worked for these weapons (11 years and counting of understanding). So, would you mind posting that picture up in the ARC section so we can see if this has been a long-standing misconception (AFAIK it's a pretty far spread misconception on the Left Coast if it is, it's not just me) or if we need to put a clarification in the addendum to make sure we all know why they are to be made that way. I'd do it but can't figure out how to capture that diagram you did and post it in my posting, and that's a great cutaway of what we're trying to figure out.