D&D 5E Go Go Gadget Arm! Eberron Preview

WotC just shared this Arcane Propulsion Arm! It functions as a 1d8-dmaage magic melee weapon which you can throw (don't worry, it flies back and reattaches).

 

[Weiley31]

It could be designated as a Kensei weapon though.

THE KENSEI WITH THE IRON FIST

 

[Salthorae]

So after misty step and summonable warlock blade this is another item where a dm can never disarm / bind / lock up PCs using mundane means.

Don't forget Weapon Bonds from EK, or those pesky Monks walking around with their hands and feet as weapons!

As to the binding/locking up, 3.5 had Benign Transposition as a 1st level Verbal only spell. Baleful Transposition as a 2nd Level Verbal only, and within Eberron Dimensional Leap as a 10'/CL teleportation Verbal only at 1st level... so this has been around for about 15 years at lower levels now. It's always been around with Dimension Door, so it's not new to misty step

what if someone casts regeneration on the player? Does it need a save? What if player fails it?

I would say that part of the regeneration would fail unless you unattuned the arm personally.

Regenerate is a 1 min casting time so you can't use it as a combat spell to 'disarm' your opponent, otherwise, I'd allow that under the rule of cool!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Don't forget Weapon Bonds from EK

My EK got really annoying when the DM made the McGuffin-of-Plot something that could be attached to a weapon...

 

[Von Ether]

I suppose. I'd actually forgotten about the lingering injuries option, to be honest.

Plot and character makes sense, of course, but given the abstract nature of D&D's entire system, I don't see many one-armed characters currently sitting around waiting for a prosthetic.

And even within Eberron, it would be an interesting choice to deny magical healing for the chance at a prosthetic. I mean, characters do what characters do, but it seems an odd thing to desire given the other options generally available.

In the Expanse, younger Belters damaged in accidents refuse fancy bio-grown arms so they show off their robo arm as "street cred." Culture can be a crazy thing.

 

[NotAYakk]

Regenerate is a 1 min casting time so you can't use it as a combat spell to 'disarm' your opponent, otherwise, I'd allow that under the rule of cool!

Easy; wish emulates that as an action!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

In the Expanse, younger Belters damaged in accidents refuse fancy bio-grown arms so they show off their robo arm as "street cred." Culture can be a crazy thing.

I've not managed to get into The Expanse, but it's sounds like someone wrote up a Traveller campaign.

 

[Salthorae]

Easy; wish emulates that as an action!

If I have access to wish there are way more things I could think of doing with it to defeat an enemy than to try and regenerate his prosthetic arm off!

 

[NotAYakk]

If I have access to wish there are way more things I could think of doing with it to defeat an enemy than to try and regenerate his prosthetic arm off!

But none are as cool.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

You could Wish them to strangle themselves with their own arm.

 

[Salthorae]

But none are as cool.

What I would do would depend on the actual scenario and the history of the game to that point, but I promise that it would be cooler than "knock his arm off", this is WISH for goodness sake.