Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
XGTE Errata
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Cognomen's Cassowary" data-source="post: 7291755" data-attributes="member: 6801445"><p>"the weapon" - noun phrase, subject - What does the weapon do?</p><p></p><p>"gains" - verb - Okay, the weapon gains what?</p><p></p><p>"a +1 bonus" - noun phrase, direct object - The weapon gains a +1 bonus to what?</p><p></p><p>"its" - possessive pronoun - "The weapon" is pretty clearly the antecedent. "The weapon" possesses the coming indirect object.</p><p></p><p>"to its attack and damage rolls" - prepositional phrase, indirect object - The weapon's attack and damage rolls.</p><p></p><p>Thus, all together, "The weapon gains a +1 bonus to [the weapon's] attack and damage rolls." Unless you are using the weapon's attack and damage rolls when casting your spells--which is both not supported by the rules ("Attack Rolls," PHB 205) and a huge nerf a large majority of the time--you do not gain this bonus on spells.</p><p></p><p>If the authors had wanted to say, "While using your pact weapon as an arcane focus, you gain a +1 bonus to your spell attack and damage rolls," they very well could have--and that's exactly the kind of language that they used on, e.g., rod of the pact keeper and wand of the war mage. Instead, they made the +1 bonus to the weapon's attack and damage rolls as linguistically separate from the prior effect as they could, by placing it in a new paragraph and writing a transition which introduces it as a separate effect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cognomen's Cassowary, post: 7291755, member: 6801445"] "the weapon" - noun phrase, subject - What does the weapon do? "gains" - verb - Okay, the weapon gains what? "a +1 bonus" - noun phrase, direct object - The weapon gains a +1 bonus to what? "its" - possessive pronoun - "The weapon" is pretty clearly the antecedent. "The weapon" possesses the coming indirect object. "to its attack and damage rolls" - prepositional phrase, indirect object - The weapon's attack and damage rolls. Thus, all together, "The weapon gains a +1 bonus to [the weapon's] attack and damage rolls." Unless you are using the weapon's attack and damage rolls when casting your spells--which is both not supported by the rules ("Attack Rolls," PHB 205) and a huge nerf a large majority of the time--you do not gain this bonus on spells. If the authors had wanted to say, "While using your pact weapon as an arcane focus, you gain a +1 bonus to your spell attack and damage rolls," they very well could have--and that's exactly the kind of language that they used on, e.g., rod of the pact keeper and wand of the war mage. Instead, they made the +1 bonus to the weapon's attack and damage rolls as linguistically separate from the prior effect as they could, by placing it in a new paragraph and writing a transition which introduces it as a separate effect. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
XGTE Errata
Top