Bow and Ammo Stacking... Flaming?

[kreynolds]

Yeah I think I remember the enhancments Caliban came up with. They were really cool, things like Corrosive, Bladestorm, Bladefury and the like. Now if we could get Caliban to repost those...

Yo! Caliban! You get stung by a scorpion and die or what!? Out with it!

Man, I'm gonna feel like a real jerk if he did.

 

[Macbrea]

Hmm, Flame/Frost would be the same as Icy Hot pain reliever?

 

[Kae'Yoss]

It would be like sour sweets (OK, some Asian cultures found out how to do that! )

 

[The_lone_gunman]

If you are allowing flaming/ice to stack, who cares if they stack it with flame/flame? It is essentially the same thing (except that it sucks because both effects could be defeated by a resist elements fire). Why can't you just interpret it as MORE fire than the arrow would have by itself.......it is the same difference. Only if you disallow fire/ice, fire/shock, etc. does it matter.

TLG

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Personally, I would say that they don't stack, since the bow bestows the flaming ability on the arrows, they have it already, the two don't stack. Of course, it can always be ruled differently: double flaming in (but you had to make that possible for melee weapons, too, or at least a corrosive/flaming weapon or something like that.) or you could rule that there's always no more than one elemental enchantment (like kreynolds suggested it).

 

[kreynolds]

If you are allowing flaming/ice to stack, who cares if they stack it with flame/flame? It is essentially the same thing (except that it sucks because both effects could be defeated by a resist elements fire). Why can't you just interpret it as MORE fire than the arrow would have by itself.......it is the same difference. Only if you disallow fire/ice, fire/shock, etc. does it matter.

TLG

I don't let them stack at all, so it's not a problem for me in any way, shape, or form.

 

[Sir Hawkeye]

It would be like sour sweets (OK, some Asian cultures found out how to do that! )

Not quite, technically . Sour and sweet aren't opposites(chemically). Now a sour bitter would be impressive, but it would probably wind up as a salt (although if there were some sort of buffer, maybe...).

I should probably explain my scientific babbling:
Taste-wise:
Sour = Acid
Sweet = Sugars & carbohydrates
Salty = Ionic substances (salts)
Bitter = Bases
Bases and Acids neutralize each other to form salts, so sour bitters are fairly impossible, not that you would want them anyway.

hmmm... Sometimes I should probably resist the temptation to pull out scientific explanations for things.

 

[The_lone_gunman]

I don't let them stack at all, so it's not a problem for me in any way, shape, or form.

Well I'm probably not talking about you then . My statement was more directed toward the ones that allow flaming/ice but not flaming/flaming. There is no difference, and the reason it would work is the same reason you can have a bow that makes fire arrows in the first place (it's magic).

TLG

 

[CullAfulMoshuN]

Grapefruit.

 

[kreynolds]

Well I'm probably not talking about you then . My statement was more directed toward the ones that allow flaming/ice but not flaming/flaming. There is no difference, and the reason it would work is the same reason you can have a bow that makes fire arrows in the first place (it's magic).

TLG

Technically, you're right. However, look at it like this. The Flaming enhancement has a +1 base market price modifier, which is perfectly reasonable for adding a mere 1d6 fire damage to a weapon. Now, consider creatures with Fire Resistance. A flaming weapon, although very handy against a Troll, is fairly worthless against anything with fire resistance. However, a flaming weapon that deals 2d6 fire damage is a little more valuable, but still mostly fairly priced at a +2 base market price modifier, although you won't have as hard a time getting past fire resistence (remember, fire resistence absorbs so many points of fire damage per round, not per hit) so it should technically be worth more than just +2. But this is where it gets pretty jacked up: a flaming weapon that deals 3d6 or 4d6 fire damage is very advantageous to have as you will have a much easier time chewing through a creature's fire resistance. Not only that, but you will all but annihilate creatures that don't have fire resistance. Besideds the fact that allowing these to stack totally destroys the burst enhancements, this is one of the big ol' reasons that I don't let these enhancements stack.