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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sekhmet" data-source="post: 5387727" data-attributes="member: 97602">A player of mine wants to put Returning on the Harpoon from Frostburn, suggesting that it would negate the opponent's ability to make a heal check to safely remove the harpoon, and it would deal it's secondary damage just before your next turn due to Returning forcing it back the way it entered the body. I've always considered 3.5's Returning to be a boomerang sort of effect, where the item strikes the target and then flies back in a circular motion; whereas he sees it as the weapon stops midair and travels backward exactly as it did forward, as if you'd hit rewind. What do you guys think would occur in this instance?Returning: This special ability can only be placed on a weapon that can be thrown. A returning weapon flies through the air back to the creature that threw it. It returns to the thrower just before the creature’s next turn (and is therefore ready to use again in that turn).Catching a returning weapon when it comes back is a free action. If the character can’t catch it, or if the character has moved since throwing it, the weapon drops to the ground in the square from which it was thrown.Harpoon: The harpoon is a broad-bladed spear forgedwith barbs. The shaft of the harpoon has a trailing ropeattached to control harpooned opponents. Though designedfor hunting whales and other large sea creatures, the harpooncan be used on dry land.If it deals damage, the harpoon lodges in an opponentwho fails a Refl ex saving throw (DC 10 + the damage dealt).A harpooned creature moves at only half speed and cannotcharge or run. If you control the trailing rope by succeedingon an opposed Strength check while holding it, theharpooned creature can move only within the limits thatthe rope allows (the trailing rope is 30 feet long). If the harpoonedcreature attempts to cast a spell, it must succeed ona DC 15 Concentration check or lose the spell.The harpooned creature can pull the harpoon fromits wound if it has two free hands and takes a full-roundaction to do so, but it deals damage to itself equal to the initialdamage the harpoon dealt. A character who succeedson a DC 15 Heal check can remove a harpoon withoutfurther damage.</blockquote>

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