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For questions primarily about weapons, equipment usable by characters to cause damage to other characters or creatures.
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Of what material are nets and whips made?
Whips are generally made from braiding leather.
Nets are made by laying rope, line, or string in a lattice and knotting the intersections. Nets could be made from any material used to make rope (ie …
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Can weapons get better?
If the campaign level is giving +2 magic weapons or typical monster HP is 35+, then your improvement shouldn't be overpowering. …
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Is Greatsword superior to Greataxe?
While Netzach makes a very good point, I'd like to add in the die dynamics.
Although the average is very similar the two situations behave very differently.
2d6
Rolling 2 dice creates a bell curve dis …
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What would be the consequences of using a rapier made of gold?
Gold is soft and malleable. One test to see if a coin is really gold is to bite it. Thus, gold would be a very poor weapon as it would bend and could not take a cutting edge. Any alloy durable enough …
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Is a dose of poison on a weapon used up if the target is immune to poison?
Typical poisoned arrows are dipped in poison. The poison wipes off the arrow and enters the targets blood stream when the creature is hit. This happens regardless if the target is immune or not. If yo …
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Is a weapon that grants additional attacks overpowered or exploitable?
Adding to NathanS' answer balancing and abuse issues can be addressed by comparing to existing mechanics.
Two-Weapon Fighting:
When you take the Attack action and attack with a light melee weapon …
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Is it possible to use a weapon as a normal weapon and an arcane focus at the same time?
Yes and No.
You can attack with the staff as an action. Then cast Shocking Grasp as a bonus action. But, Shocking Grasp would require its own attack roll.
As per Shocking Grasp:
Make a melee spe …
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Are there any recommended weights, costs, or lead times for siege weapons?
It lists cost for weapons and number of weapons allowed based on ship size/type. …
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Can a Pact of the Blade warlock with Improved Pact Weapon use a reach weapon as a spellcasti...
No, a focus does not deliver spells
Page 202 of the Player's Handbook states (emphasis mine):
Material (M)
Casting some spells requires particular objects, specified in parentheses in the component e …