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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrSpunj" data-source="post: 1190280" data-attributes="member: 994">It was, but thanks. Monte does it with the Mageblade's athame in AU and I'll admit it rubbed me the wrong way at first, too.Then I thought about it a bit and realized a few things:* If it isn't destroyed when you make a new one, then it isn't anything "special" to the AA. If it gets stolen or taken or locked up and the AA can't Call it back, he's forced to really make a decision about whether or not he's willing to destroy it (and pick a new one) or whether he's going to go after it and retrieve it.* If it isn't destroyed automatically when he selects a new one, then the AA doesn't have to make that choice. He grabs *any* other bow, spends a day with it, uses it to go and retrieve his good bow (with hardly any real loss of his power), then spends another day in ceremony with his old, good bow and nothing's really changed.* The party has to make a real choice by giving the AA a magic (or otherwise special) bow to use as his mehta. If they allow it, then the AA is going to really want to use it all the time. Outside of his hands it's still got whatever magic it was enchanted with, so it isn't useless to the rest of the party, but the AA is so much less effective without it that it probably isn't a good decision for the party as a whole.To me it helps push that an AA's bow is really "special". If the DM, either all the time or in a special case scenario, doesn't want the bow destroyed, the main point is that it becomes, for all intents & purposes, immediately irretrievable by the AA (though it could be sent to an outer plane or something, and be the subject of a special quest).Thanks.</blockquote>

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