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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umklapp" data-source="post: 4567245" data-attributes="member: 80501">Good point. Admittedly my argument is not very compelling.I am not committed to any particular interpretation but the argument "you're wrong" is hardly convincing <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  However you indeed triggered a different point of view. So far I assumed that the energy enhancement originated from the bow and then it was bestowed to the ammunitions. Thence the problems on how much the enhancement is and what triggers it, trying to apply the ability description to the bow.However, reading again the weapon ability description and comparing also with the flame arrow spell, it now seems to me that the bow bestows the ability rather than the enhancement to the ammunitions (this was suggested by your "Frost-enhanced arrows"), although the DMG text "bestow the energy upon their ammunitions" is not overly clear. Now the ability description applies to the arrows so that they behave as they were enchanted with a spell like flame arrow. In this case, I agree that +1d6 is a "normal" damage, as you wrote, and applies to each arrow.As you can see, I can change my mind <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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