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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8855329" data-attributes="member: 7030563">Magic does not change the object into something else but it alters  it to cause the bludgeoning damage if hit by it.  If you catapult a scimitar, it is still a scimitar, but it does bludgeoning damage, not slashing damage and it does 3d8 instead of the 1d6 that would normally be dealt by a Scimitar.  After you catapult it you go and pick it up off the ground and can use it like any other scimitar assuming it did not break from the damage.Consider the magnitude of damage - An improvised weapon does 1d4 when used by a character, you catapult that same chair or broom or pot and it does 3d8.In game you don't take 3d8 bludgeoning damage from a flying scimitar or broom or pot or small chair unless that scimitar, broom, pot or chair was flung by the catapult spell.What about my examples in the last post - you catapult a bed sheet or you catapult a pillow?  Does it no longer do damage in your games because these are soft and would not hurt you if you were hit by them?Summary:  Catapult is a magic spell, the wording in the spell bypasses the physical constraints to implement the effect noted and only the effect noted.  It does 3d8 bludgeoning because the spell says it does 3d8 bludgeoning and it is still a net, pillow, bedsheet, pot, broom, chair or scimitar because the spell does not say it turns into something else.</blockquote>