Multiple javelins

[Aaron2]

I don't see how having multiple javelins in a quiver on your back is any less feasible than drawing five or more daggers. (Which DnD allows, even though it would be rather difficult for a real person to draw five daggers from five different sheaths with the same hand and throw them all with the same hand in the span of six seconds.)

I view Quick Draw not just as the ability to grab a weapon faster but knowing tricks and having proper equipment to have all the weapon where they can be easily accessed.

Kinda like how Silver Spear kept those knives in his belt in The Kid with the Golden Arms.

Its less implausible that way.

Aaron

 

[Antikinesis]

How does one - can one? - carry around multiple javelins at the same time, and throw them one after the other?
I don't think that "javelin quivers" existed, did they? Or, regardless of their historicity, do they exist in D&D in some form?

From the SRD...

Quiver of Ehlonna

This appears to be a typical arrow container capable of holding about 20 arrows. Examination shows that it has three distinct portions, each with an extradimensional space allowing it to store far more than would normally be possible. The first and smallest one can contain up to 60 objects of the same general size and shape as an arrow. The second slightly longer compartment holds up to 18 objects of the same general size and shape as a javelin. The third and longest portion of the case contains as many as six objects of the same general size and shape as a bow (spears, staffs, etc.). Once the owner has filled it, she can command the quiver each round to produce any stored items she wishes.

Caster Level: 9th; Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, Leo_mund’s secret chest; Market Price: 1,800 gp; Weight: -.

(emphasis mine.)

-AK

 

[CCamfield]

Re: Re: Multiple javelins

Ok, that's pretty cool, because it even suggests a relative capacity value for an ordinary quiver (6, I presume, since normal quivers hold 20 arows). Thanks for pointing that out!

 

[LokiDR]

Does this mean I can a quiver of quarterstaffs too?

 

[Mahali]

Roman warriors carried 1 javelin with a soft metal tip so they couldn't be thrown back by the enemy. They'd all throw when in range and then the javelin was useless.

Even if it hit a person the weight of the shaft bent the tip.

 

[Darklone]

Mahali, no offense: These are fairy tales. The tips don't bend, either they stay straight or they break. And they don't break that often.

And their light infantry carried several light javelins, NOT the pilums for the heavy infantry which you were talking about.

 

[Mahali]

Mahali, no offense: These are fairy tales. The tips don't bend, either they stay straight or they break. And they don't break that often.

And their light infantry carried several light javelins, NOT the pilums for the heavy infantry which you were talking about.

The ones I mention were for heavy infantry, I don't remember a distinction between infantry types and javelins. However; I have seen more than one history book that disagrees with your fairy tale statement.

 

[Sejs]

Pilum:

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...........................pilum bends here.



It wasn't the tip that bends, it's the lead neck between the head of the javelin and the wooden shaft.