Holy Water Ammo

[StreamOfTheSky]

It's still cheaper than Holy Water flask (Bless Water requires 25 GP to produce a single flask), as you effectively get 20 attacks for the price of 30 GP as opposed to a single flask.

There are many design issues with the arrows though (price violation, container size, arrow range/balancing), and so I would ban the item from my game immediately.

Regards,
Ruemere

Oh, when I said it was ridiculous, I meant because it's cheaper than real holy water, and pretty much better, too (since the range becomes your longbow range).

That said, I used raining arrows for the first time last session, when we went to take on a town full of undead and many of them had DR I couldn't negate with my arrows. The DM ruled I didn't get the splash damage on the arrows to "balance" them (oh noes, I don't hit adjacent enemies for 1 damage!). Should be noted, the party is 7 people and there's actually TWO archers in the party. We both used these raining arrows. And...we still did less damage per hit than the melee characters. It didn't seem overpowered at all. I think the real issue is that actual holy water flasks are grossly overpriced, not that these arrows are underpriced. YMMV, of course.

 

[ruemere]

Oh, when I said it was ridiculous, I meant because it's cheaper than real holy water, and pretty much better, too (since the range becomes your longbow range).

That said, I used raining arrows for the first time last session, when we went to take on a town full of undead and many of them had DR I couldn't negate with my arrows. The DM ruled I didn't get the splash damage on the arrows to "balance" them (oh noes, I don't hit adjacent enemies for 1 damage!). Should be noted, the party is 7 people and there's actually TWO archers in the party. We both used these raining arrows. And...we still did less damage per hit than the melee characters. It didn't seem overpowered at all. I think the real issue is that actual holy water flasks are grossly overpriced, not that these arrows are underpriced. YMMV, of course.

We're in agreement. I have issues with design of the item, not with its actual efficiency in hands of an archer.

As for the damage, well, let me try my best impersonation of Roy Batty:

I've seen things...

Argh, just imagine Order of the Bow Initate with 9 arrows per round, each arrow dealing between 25 and 33 points of damage, with Improved Critical, and an almost automatic hit. And at 10th level, none the less.

*sigh*

This guy fought singlehandedly a spell plague (FR, high level spellcaster undead monstrosity) to a stand still at the distance of 800 feet. Well... not singlehandedly, he's been buffed and cheered by the rest of the party, but still...

No wonder GM sundered his precious bow at the first opportunity.

Regards,
Ruemere