Enc.:	IS:	Aura:	XP: ---	GP: 1k
Miscellaneous Weapons	-	Magic Items	-	DMG

Spear, Cursed Backbiter, is to all tests a magic spear with a +1 bonus (or at your option +2 or +3).

Even when it is used in combat against a deadly
enemy it will possibly perform properly, but each time i t is used in meleé
in anger against a foe, there is a 5% (1 in 20) cumulative chance that i t will
function ogainst its wielder, and once so functioning i t cannot be loosed
without a remove curse spell. When functioning, the spear will curl to
strike its wielder in the bock, having a hit probability which negates any
shield and/or dexterity bonuses to armor closs, and doing normal
damage. Bockbiting includes hurling, but if the wielder has hurled the
spear, he or she is, of course, loosed from grasping it; the damage done to
the hurler will be double, however.