Very Quick Question

[Vryan]

For applied substances, like serious vorpal coating, it says it lasts for "the very next strike". Does that mean if I swing it and don't actually hit anything, I just swing it at the air, does it go away? What about if I swing and it gets blocked? Do you swing the extra damage until you hit them, or just for the very next time you call damage?

 

[youthculture]

It lasts until the first surface it hits. So -- shield, body, sword, whatever. After you call the damage, it's gone.

 

[Vryan]

So, call the damage and it's gone? Thanks.

 

[youthculture]

Basically. Like, if you call your damage and it's a miss, then you still have it. But a hit (which can be magic armor'd, can hit a shield, what have you) still wipes any coating you have off the weapon.

 

[Vryan]

Oh. So I CAN threaten people with 14's. Great!

 

[obcidian_bandit]

Yes. But if someone so much as taps your weapon with theirs during that threat, the coating is used up.

 

[Ondreij]

My character is an archer, and he uses coated arrows (bolts, actually, because his primary weapon is a heavy crossbow). Anytime I chuck a bolt with a coating, I assume that the coating is gone with the bolt whether or not the target is hit. That's the disadvantage with bolts/arrows.

But, I can have my alchemist apply these coatings in his lab at a 2:1 ratio -- which is an advantage of weapons coatings in archery ... as is the ranged fighting.

Coated bolts/arrows ROCK!



(edited for typo)