Weapons

Weapons

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Weapons are any item that causes physical damage when wielded by a creature. These range from melee and ranged weapons to projectiles and ammunition.

Most weapons can be created with Forging.

See Melee Weapons and Ranged Weapons for stats and crafting recipes.

Level Requirement

Arelith uses its own system to determine the level necessary to equip most gear crafted through the crafting system.

Weapons crafted through forging have their own requirement, but otherwise, all weapons follow these exact price/requirement tiers:

• 2000 GP = Level 1
• 4000 GP = Level 4
• 7000 GP = Level 7
• 15000 GP = Level 10
• 30000 GP = Level 13
• Higher cost = Level 16
• Increased UMD flagged items= Level 21

The cost of an item is determined the moment it is generated. Even if the item is enchanted, upgraded, essenced, or changes owner, the requirement will remain exactly the same.

Proficiency

Weapons can now be freely equipped without having the corresponding proficiency. However, if you equip a weapon which you normally wouldn't be able to hold, you:

• Will receive a -4 AB penalty
• Won't be able to use the special abilities of said weapon, such as integrated spells.

Drow may equip Whips without penalty, but they cannot invest in whip feats without having Exotic Proficiency first.

Weapon Changes

Bastard Sword can be toggled to one handed/two handed with the -twohand command. Bastard swords, however, don't receive the bonus above when they are two-handed using the command.

Dwarven Waraxe can be used by Dwarves without taking the Exotic Weapon Proficiency feat. Taking feats that affect the Battleaxe (Weapon focus, Improved critical, etc) will also be granted for the Dwarven Waraxe - this is done since characters without the Exotic feat cannot normally put feats into the dwarven waraxe. Dwarves can also -twohand this weapon.

Kama size changed from Small to Tiny.

Katana is affected by Weapon Finesse. Size changed from medium to small (thus smaller races can dual-wield them or use them with shield). Weight is reduced from 10 lbs to 6 lbs.

Quarterstaff is now a double-sided weapon, like the double-axe and the two-bladed sword. The offhand damage is based on your base unarmed damage score (default is 1d3, or 1d4 and above for monks). Like other double-sided weapons, its STR damage bonus is 1.0x for the main hand and 0.5 for the offhand attacks. It is affected by Weapon Finesse. It benefits from monk's UBAB progression, but it cannot be used with Flurry of Blows.

Shuriken benefits from the monk's UBAB progression.

Spear damage lowered from 1d8/x3 to 1d6/x3. Size changed from large to Medium, thus they can be wielded with a shield. Smaller characters, such as halfings and kobolds may use them as two-handed weapons.

Note that due to a bug, a spear with shield may not be quickslotted, nor they will display the correct values in the sheet. There's a file to fix this available at Google Drive, just download and install in the Override folder.

Throwing Axes work along with Arelith's Barbarian Rage.

Trident dice changed from 1d8/x2 to 2d6/x3. They are still large weapons, and thus they cannot be wielded with shield. Weapon Focus feat will work for tridents. (Note that this is due to a work around in NWNX but it is unknown if this is a soft (i.e. counts towards +20 cap) or hard (as per normal weapon focus))

Note that some modified weapons will not be displayed correctly in the character sheet (the information displayed will not affect the performance of the weapon), such as the spear and trident. The same Google Drive file as above includes the fix.

Two-Handed Use

If you classify to wield a weapon in one hand, you will not be able two use it as a two-handed even if you forego the use of a shield. The same way that the quarterstaff will always be considered a two-sided weapon, and will always attack as a two-sided weapon.

All double-sided and weapons held as two-handed by the character will grant an additional +2 AB.

Weapon visuals guide

With Essences:

• Standard Weapons with enhancement bonuses such as a +1, +2, +3, will all show an essence's effect.

• Visuals will show on a crafted weapon of Greensteel, Masterly Steel or Masterly Damask.

• Visuals will show on Basin Enchanted weapons.

• The only essences to grant visual effects are +4 and +1d6.

• Acid, Cold, Electrical, Fire and Sonic will all grant visual effects to these weapons.

• Divine, Positive and Negative will not show any visual effects.

• Gloves will never show any visual effects.

Note that when an essence is applied to a weapon, all previous elemental damage bonuses will be removed from that weapon (Acid, Cold, Divine, Electrical, Fire, Negative, Positive, and Sonic), regardless whether the bonus is original of the item or was added through essences or enchantment.

Weapon Visuals

Arrow Management and Essencing

To get improved ammunition, you can either find them or craft bundles that can be used with assemble templates.
Bundles of ammunition can be crafted or created via the Ranger 'Archer Path'
You use the bundles on the template to transfer the stored properties onto the ammunition.

• Stable Slots will store Permanent Essences onto the Template.
• Unstable slots will store Temporary Essences (10 uses) or certain spells (5 uses)

Assemble Templates

Name	ID	DC	Craft Points	Value	Materials	Properties	Reusability
Basic Template	1033	5	20	500	1 Softwood 1 Aventurine 1 Ingot (Tin)	1 Unstable Slot	Permanent
Simple Template	1036	15	20	2000	1 Hardwood 1 Amethyst 1 Ingot (Tin) 1 Brass Gears 2 Glass Vials	1 Stable Slot 1 Unstable Slot	Permanent
Standard Template	1039	25	50	10000	2 Hardwood 1 Fire Agate 1 Ingot (Silver) 2 Brass Gears 3 Glass Vials	3 Unstable Slots	Consumable
Stable Template	1042	35	80	25000	2 Hardwood 1 Garnet 2 Brass Gears 3 Glass Vials 1 Small Seed Balm	2 Stable Slots 1 Unstable Slot	Repairable
Complex Template	1067	45	160	20000	2 Hardwood 1 Diamond 1 Adaptive Gears 4 Glass Vials	4 Unstable Slots	Consumable

Permanent Templates will not degrade, while Repairable ones can break if not maintained.
Consumable Templates are not repairable and will break after so many uses.

Spells for Unstable Slots

• Darkfire: 1d6 Fire, 1d6 Negative (2d4 if cast below 20 CL)
• Bless Weapon: 2d6 Divine vs Undead (Pre-20CL), vs Outsiders (Post-20CL), vs Dragon (UNKNOWN)
• Flame Weapon: 1d8 Fire (@ 25 CL)
• Holy Sword: 1d10 Divine vs Evil (@ 17 CL)
• Blackstaff: 3 Magical (@ 25 CL)
• Deafening Clang: 2 Sonic (@ 11 CL)
• Greater Magic Weapon: 5 Slashing @ 30 CL (2 base + 1 per 10 CL)
• Blade Thirst: 1d6 Negative, Vampiric +4 (@ 24 CL)
• Keen Edge: 1d6 Slashing, Wounding DC-24 (@ 25 CL)

Damage of the same type do not stack. Even if they are for specific enemies.

-Ex: If the template has a Stable Slot with sonic damage, the unstable slot can't take Deafening Clang.

Crafting

In Arelith, most weapons and armor are divided in two types - standard, that follow a strict style, and 'special', that have unique characteristics, greater power, as well as crafting requirements.

All standard weapons respect these rules:

Type	Bonus	Level Requirement
Bronze		N/A
Iron	Attack Bonus + 1	Level 1
	Damage Bonus + 1
Masterly Iron	Attack Bonus + 1	Level 4
	Damage Bonus + 2
Steel	Attack Bonus + 2	Level 7
	Damage Bonus + 2
Masterly Steel	Attack Bonus + 2	Level 10
	Damage Bonus + 4
Greensteel	Attack Bonus + 3	Level 13
	Keen (green light)
Damask	Attack Bonus + 3	Level 13
	Damage Bonus + 3
Masterly Damask	Attack Bonus + 3	Level 16
	Damage Bonus + 6

Recipes

See Melee Weapons and Ranged Weapons for stats and crafting recipes.

General Notes:

• Most weapons share similar recipes.
• Greensteel is divided in three size tiers; small (2 coal, 1 greensteel ingot), medium (4 coals, 2 ingots), large (6 coals, 3 ingots).
• Very rarely, some recipe may require something more (Some spears need a quarterstaff for crafting).
• All masterly damask recipes are identical.