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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Damon Griffin" data-source="post: 865735" data-attributes="member: 3568">How would this magic item be priced?Take a Mighty Bow +4, and enchant it -- via Bull's Strenth, presumably -- to grant its wielder sufficient STR to use the full Mighty bonus.  It's going to be worth less than a Belt of Giant Strength or Gauntlets of Ogre Power, because the Facile Bow only grants extra STR for one purpose: making the bow itself easier to use at its full capacity.  Obviously a character using a Facile Bow would not do extra damage with a melee weapon, or have his lifting/carrying capacity increased, nor would the increase have any effect on STR-based skills (ever try to climb or swim while holding a bow with arrow nocked?)The bow is otherwise non-magical, so it grants no attack bonus and doesn't count as magical for purposes of determining what it will hit.  So, what, treat it as a half-price bow +4?Or should 'facile' be a weapon quality, applicable only to bows, and if so what's it worth?  +2?</blockquote>