Flaming and similar ammunition and command words

[kreynolds]

As I read this, all ammunition AND weapons you have on you that possess the flaming property are activated by uttering the command word. I can't see where it says you have to wield it in order to activate it and I also can't see anything about different command words for the same property.

A flaming longsword and a flaming longbow are two separate items. Though they share the same property (flaming), they are individual from one another. To my knowledge, individual items that use command words to activate require separate command words. Whether those command words are the same words, I believe is irrelevant, but what is relevant, is the number of actions required to activate said pieces of equipment.

With that said, is it really terribly unbalancing to allow a flaming longbow and flaming longsword to both be activated with a single standard action command word? Probably not, but up to you, ultimately. Then again, where do you draw the line? If I have a flaming longsword, shocking longbow, four acidic daggers, 25 frost arrows and 25 shock arrows, would you let me activate all of those at once? What if I also had two rings that used command words to activate? Would they be included?

One could devise some rules to cover this, but would you really want to?