May clerics use caltrops?

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I'm playing a cleric in one campaign and he frequently uses caltrops for defensive measures. When setting up camp, caltrops are there, when sleeping in a inn caltrops are set up near the window, when making a hasty retreat caltrops are there to slow the bad guys down. My DM doesn't have a problem with this, and neither do I, but I was wondering what YOU would say about this.

My explanation is that since it's a passive item it doesn't count as a weapon, you cannot wield it to bash someone's head in. You don't force people to step into it, and if they do it's their own fault. Actually I just think of it like a small version of blade barrier So what do you think?

 

that depends on the diety, but personally I dont see a problem with it either.
It's wise

 

*shrug*

It really depends. Sticking a caltrop in a captured goblin's foot and slowly twisting it in is one thing, but throwing some in the way of a charging troll is another. Think of it as a portable trap.

But this is mainly an RP/character concept problem. Assuming you're playing a cleric of a help-the-good, smite-the-evil deity, caltrops in themselves are fine.

 

Personally I think the rule of not using spikey stuff is stupid, so even if you are getting around the rules with this - you should ignore the rule completly unless your deity is specifically against it for some reason or another.

 

Aren't cleric being allowed spiked and bladed weapons in the new rules? I don't do pnp, so I haven't actually read 3rd ed. but in both IWD2, NWN and ToEE my clerics have no objections to use longswords and the like.

That being said, I did like the rule for them to only use blunt weapons. Now I hardly care about slings and hammers/maces anymore...

 

Yep, they're allowed to use any weapon (except for certain magical weapons, depending on alignment/deity). But they pretty much get stuck with crappy stuff, like maces, spears, or daggers.

 

It's really the different between simple and martial weapons, which is much more reasonable than only blunt weapons. After all a cleric can use a feat to gain a martial weapon is they really want one. Moreover some war-like domains allow martail weapons as there granted power.
As for you cleric's choice in weapons. If your god does not object and there is a good RP reason for why not. Who do you worship anyway? It could be great for the god a of trickery.