1-Faulty Chain
This morning star is a fine weapon, but in it's last combat a sword struck and partly cut it's metal chain, meaning that in any fight, there is a one in six chance of the chain breaking and the sharp pointed star flying off at random and perhaps hitting you or one of your friends and causing friendly fire damage. A blacksmith is needed to repair it.
2-No Scabbard
The morning star's scabbard is missing, and even many otherwise weapon friendly towns and cities draw the line at weapons being carried "at the ready" in the owner's hand. It can of course be stuck in a backpack, but then the spikes will damage the backpack lining, cut into any fruit in there, and it'll be hard to get it out when you really do need it for a fight.
3-Blood Lust
This was once owned by a fearsome berserker and it has a spell cast on it which makes it's owner want to kill people with it. If anyone, even a fellow PC, annoys the mace's owner, he or she must make a Will roll in stats terms. Failure makes the owner grab the mace and try and start a fight to the death with the person who annoyed him or her, no matter how stupid or dangerous this is.
4-Too Heavy
In the hands of an ogre this would be a truly fearsome weapon, but it is much too heavy to use effectively in combat or even carry comfortably for very long. Perhaps the PCs managed to slay a mighty ogre and this was part of the loot.
5-Prop Mace
What looks like a deadly weapon is a balsa wood prop meant for use on the stage to impress audiences with, and is totally useless for any actual fighting except for using it as a bluff to make people back off and leave you alone.
6-Accursed
The last owner laid a curse on his weapon shortly before being killed in battle, and now in stats terms it has a -2 modifier both in any damage it does and in it's chances of hitting anything in the first place.
7-Raises Dead
The favoured weapon of a notorious Lich, this raises anyone it kills as an Undead zombie, and if the mace's owner is not either a Lich or a skilled necromancer, he or she will be attacked by the zombie that was just raised by the weapon.
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