Do the anarchic, axiomatic, holy, and unholy magical weapon properties actually give the weapon an alignment, same as a creature?
- If you have the magic weapon special abilities that you mention, your weapon does take on an alignment. Since you cannot be both lawful and chaotic or good and evil, you cannot put conflicting abilities on the same weapon.
Likewise, how would it work if I wanted to add these properties to a sentient weapon, since these have listed alignments also?
- You can apply these to a sentient weapon as long as it doesn't conflict with the weapon's existing alignment.
Thirdly, ranged weapons confer their enhancement bonuses and magical properties on their ammunition. Likewise, the ammunition, if enchanted, has its enhancement bonus overridden, but keeps its magical properties (unless the firing weapon has those also, in which case they are overridden).What happens if the total conferred bonuses (enhancement bonuses and effective bonuses from the magic properties) on the ammunition was greater than +10? For example, what happens if a +1 speed unholy shocking burst arrow was fired from a +5 distance longbow of seeking? The enhancement bonus of the longbow overrides that of the arrow, but now the end result is a +5 distance speed unholy shocking burst arrow of seeking, with a total effective bonus of +14! Presumably some abilities wouldn't be conferred on the arrow, but how do you determine which ones?
- This situation isn't covered by the rules, so the DM would have to decide how he wants to handle it. A logical way to do it would be for the most powerful enhancements to override the least powerful ones.
Likewise, what happens when the ranged weapon has been made with a Craft Epic Arms and Armor feat, but the ammunition hasn't...or vice versa?
- Epic weapons can ovverride the restrictions on the total number of bonuses, so the afrementioned ammo would work fine if fired from a bow created using the Craft Epic Weapons feat.
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