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Sage Advice: Sneak Attacks, Breath Weapons, and Magic Weapons
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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 7695304" data-attributes="member: 6701872"><p>That's a house rule, given the clarification found here: <a href="http://www.sageadvice.eu/2015/11/03/does-the-dueling-style-apply-to-a-thrown-melee-weapon/" target="_blank">http://www.sageadvice.eu/2015/11/03/does-the-dueling-style-apply-to-a-thrown-melee-weapon/</a></p><p></p><p>You are taking the rules statement that you quote out of context. In context, that statement describes what, besides things that are already weapons, can be an improvised weapon.</p><p></p><p>Not only is there context showing that the statement isn't intended the way you are taking here, but it is followed soon after with "In many cases, an improvised weapon is <strong>similar to an actual weapon</strong>" which again shows that things that are already weapons are not always improvised weapons.</p><p></p><p>As for what in the rules suggests that a weapon's type is transmuted if used in a way it isn't designed for (which is distinctly different than being "transmuted depending on what you do with it") - If it weren't the case, then the phrase "If a character uses a ranged weapon to make a melee attack, or throws a melee weapon that does not have the thrown property" would not be found under the heading "Improvised Weapons"</p><p></p><p>But it is, so said uses of weapons <em>must</em> be Improvised Weapons because that is how formatted information works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 7695304, member: 6701872"] That's a house rule, given the clarification found here: [url]http://www.sageadvice.eu/2015/11/03/does-the-dueling-style-apply-to-a-thrown-melee-weapon/[/url] You are taking the rules statement that you quote out of context. In context, that statement describes what, besides things that are already weapons, can be an improvised weapon. Not only is there context showing that the statement isn't intended the way you are taking here, but it is followed soon after with "In many cases, an improvised weapon is [B]similar to an actual weapon[/B]" which again shows that things that are already weapons are not always improvised weapons. As for what in the rules suggests that a weapon's type is transmuted if used in a way it isn't designed for (which is distinctly different than being "transmuted depending on what you do with it") - If it weren't the case, then the phrase "If a character uses a ranged weapon to make a melee attack, or throws a melee weapon that does not have the thrown property" would not be found under the heading "Improvised Weapons" But it is, so said uses of weapons [I]must[/I] be Improvised Weapons because that is how formatted information works. [/QUOTE]
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