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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 7130533" data-attributes="member: 6787503">Funnily, the combat rules, when I read them, say nothing about ranged weapons. They only refer to "ranged attacks" and "ranged weapon attacks". As I'm sure you know, a ranged weapon attack can be made with a melee weapon or an improvised weapon, just as well as with a ranged weapon. Perhaps you can give me a citation for where you've seen it discussing "what to do with a ranged weapon".Besides, I haven't made the argument you seem to be responding to, that a ranged weapon without the ammunition or thrown property is not a ranged weapon. I agree that a weapon classified as a ranged weapon continues to be a ranged weapon, whatever that means. My argument, to reiterate, is that it is the ammunition and thrown properties that allow a weapon to be used to make a ranged attack. The first sentence of each of these properties tells you how you can make a ranged attack with the weapon. There is no other source for the ability to make ranged weapon attacks other than the improvised weapon rules. This is the function of the thrown property that differentiates it from the ammunition property, with which it is mutually exclusive, as I pointed out previously. The other function, the main one, is to give the weapon the ability to be used to make ranged attacks.</blockquote>