Vanishing Projectile Weapons

[Gunslinger]

So you get shot with an arrow, the cleric casts CLW on you...and the arrow is magically gone! What happened to having a big piece of wood sticking out of your chest? Going by the rules there is absolutely no need to remove anything thats is embedded in your body, all you have to do is heal the wound. This of course makes no sense whatsoever. Does anyone have any house rules regarding this supernatural phenomenon? Do you make your players remove the offending weapon from their body?

 

[kreynolds]

What happened to having a big piece of wood sticking out of your chest?

Don't know. Never heard of it.

Going by the rules there is absolutely no need to remove anything thats is embedded in your body...

Actually, going by the rules, there wouldn't be anything sticking out of your body in the first place. Picture a 20th level fighter with 250-some-odd hit points, whose been taken down to 10 hit points with a longbow. Now...see how rediculous that looks?

If arrows actually stuck in your body when you got hit, you'd have what I like to call "The Porcupine Syndrome".

Do you make your players remove the offending weapon from their body?

I've been tossing around the idea that an arrow or bolt will stick with a critical hit, and pulling out the arrow would cause a little more damage if not done properly, but I haven't been all fired up about it or anything.

 

[Khorod]

If you want the nastiness of barbed arrowheads, some sort of removal problem needs to be there. Crit sounds good.

On a crit, you do 1 die of damage if you remove the arrow as a full-round action or less. If the arrowhead is barbed, you do two dice.

Actually, that sounds a bit high...
And it glosses past shooting an insta-kill through three goblins all in a row...

 

[Severion]

I've houseruled that a CLW spell extracts the arrow (wich only sticks on max damage)

 

[Ran]

Well, we say it closes the wounds AROUND the arrow, so it hurts a little to take it out... we just don't make it so that ALL arrows stick on the body, but there surely are, depends on how much damage it takes in comparation with total HP...

Anyway, how would the CLW take the arrow out, huh? absorbed?

 

[kreynolds]

Anyway, how would the CLW take the arrow out, huh? absorbed?

Magic?

That's not a trick question, I swear.

 

[Suldulin]

I would imagine that in such a case the arrow would be pushed slowly out as the wound healed. . .

 

[Jeph]

First off, I could say, its a spell, its magic, magic is special. A 1st level spell can cure a commoner 3 times over, it can't remove a bit of wood?

Or, I could say, arrows impose a -1 penalty to all attacks, saves, and checks until removed, dealing 1 damage upon removal (which is a move action). Barbed arrows impose a -2 penalty, and deal 1d4 damage upon removal.

Or, I could say, you want to make archers more powerful?!? WTF?!?

 

[Ran]

Well, Magic is really a very good answer, sooooo sorry I have never thought about it... come on...

Okay, jokes aside, I guess people prefer not to worry about it, You could just say that the spell make the part of the arrow, or any other substance inside the body (a metal piece, bullets, etc) be absorbed by the body, jut the way we absorb those strings that they use in surgeries...

It is magic, it makes it disappear, and it mkes every player happy.

Just NOT to make any damn archer more powerful, wanting to discuss if they really are, search for that looooong thread, I am anooyed at archers...

See ya!
<-- Stuck by a flurry of arrows...

 

[hong]

So you get shot with an arrow, the cleric casts CLW on you...and the arrow is magically gone! What happened to having a big piece of wood sticking out of your chest?

Unless you've been taken down to 0 hp or lower, there's absolutely no guarantee that a successful attack roll from a bow means you have a piece of wood sticking out of your chest.