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Legend
I have a lycanthrope in 5e that will be facing a low-level party, and according to the lore blessed weapons bypass its usual resistance to damage.
Not an auto-kill like the rakshasa, just bypass damage resistance.
Looking at the 5e rakshasa, "blessed weapons" seem to be handled as magical weapons wielded by good creatures.
I don't want to use that approach exclusively for two reasons:
(1) First, at low-level the party won't have magic weapons.
(2) Second, it makes alignment more of a factor than this edition seems to go for, and I'm not convinced equating "good" and "blessed" is accurate in terms of the mythology.
In fact, I'm curious about setting up a couple ways a weapon could be treated as "blessed".
So I'm curious how others have interpreted blessed weapons in 5e? Is it a magical weapon wielded by someone who is good? Is it a weapon wielded by someone under the effects of a bless spell? Is it some intrinsic property of a magical weapon forged by celestials? Is it enough to anoint a blade in holy water to make it blessed?
What has worked for you? Or what do you think would work?
Not an auto-kill like the rakshasa, just bypass damage resistance.
Looking at the 5e rakshasa, "blessed weapons" seem to be handled as magical weapons wielded by good creatures.
I don't want to use that approach exclusively for two reasons:
(1) First, at low-level the party won't have magic weapons.
(2) Second, it makes alignment more of a factor than this edition seems to go for, and I'm not convinced equating "good" and "blessed" is accurate in terms of the mythology.
In fact, I'm curious about setting up a couple ways a weapon could be treated as "blessed".
So I'm curious how others have interpreted blessed weapons in 5e? Is it a magical weapon wielded by someone who is good? Is it a weapon wielded by someone under the effects of a bless spell? Is it some intrinsic property of a magical weapon forged by celestials? Is it enough to anoint a blade in holy water to make it blessed?
What has worked for you? Or what do you think would work?