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Which magic weapon deals the most damage?
Wave can do some out of whack nova damage
There is a legendary item (not artifact) in the DMG called Wave which has the property of doing half of a creature's HP in damage on a critical hit. If you ...
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Which magic weapon deals the most damage?
Common Weapons
There are only 4 common magical weapons over all the books. Only 2 of those are actual weapons, the others are ammunition.
Moon-Touched Sword
Armblade
Since the Moon-Touched Sword can ...
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Does attacking with a Dragon Wing Hand Crossbow require one hand or two?
By RAW, loading requires two hands.
The reason that you need a second hand free to reload a hand crossbow is because of the Ammunition property, which specifically states "you need a free hand to ...
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Does attacking with a Dragon Wing Hand Crossbow require one hand or two?
This is a place where the rules aren't quite saying what they seem to say, and there's an ambiguity.
A hand crossbow has the Ammunition and Loading properties. The Ammunition property says, among ...
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Does attacking with a Dragon Wing Hand Crossbow require one hand or two?
It requires two hands
The Dragon Wing Bow can be any type of bow, but its description states (FToD, p. 23; emphasis mine):
If you load no ammunition in the weapon, it produces its own, automatically ...
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How do damage resistances work with regards to magical weapons?
Yes
Magical weapons only bypass resistance when explicitly stated. The example from the rules on resistances explicitly addresses your case:
If you have resistance to a type of damage, each time you ...
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Is it possible for a warforged to make a magical weapon into their integrated weapon?
You can turn an Armblade into a Ruidium weapon.
There is no feature called “integrated weapon” in D&D 5e. There is a magical item for Warforged that seems to be a similar idea, the Armblade:
An ...
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If knives and fists are all considered light weapons, what's the benefit of picking up such weapons?
Assuming that your character is not specifically built for it to matter, it does not matter whether you use the knife or your fists.
In Cypher System, weapons generally only exist as light/medium/...
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With starting equipment, do crossbow bolts come with a case, like arrows come with a quiver?
Just adding a note on a more RAW perspective, as I often play Adventurers League.
According to the strictest RAW interpretation, no, you only get the equipment it says you get.
However, by that same ...
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