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Nets can't do damage unless through a very rare set of occurences you throw the net in such a way as it chokes someone/ hits a weak spot/ dislocates a joint etc etc.

Of course if a deity was favouring you they might be making sure that everytime you threw your net that these "flukes" just happened to keep occurring ;)

True, but based on RAW it should be an issue addressed by the designers. We can apply real world physics to say it doesnt work, but this is a world that includes quite a few factors at odds with how our world works.

That aside, the architecture for a net to do damage is there, except the critical modifier and damage type (P/S/B). So I hope this is an issue that wont require hand waving and is addressed.

"In addition, the warpriest sacred weapon damage is based on his level and not the weapon type."

So, if you got Weapon Focus (net). Would now do damage with a net?

Seems someone else came up with the same idea I had. Although I went through the prd to attempt to see what the rules would be for throwing a net and doing damage.

First of all, I could not find any text saying "nets do no damage" in spite of a few people asserting that there was such text. Second, a net is a thrown weapon, and this text refers to damage when throwing a weapon: "Thrown Weapons: Daggers, darts, javelins, throwing axes, light hammers, and nets are examples of thrown weapons. The wielder applies his Strength modifier to damage dealt by thrown weapons (except for splash weapons)." Since a net is not a splash weapon, it should do damage equal to your strength modifier*. With the Warpriest's special abilities you would be doing d6+str damage with a net.

*To note a DM I know interpreted " applies his Strength modifier to damage dealt" as requiring a base damage to apply. Its a potential interpretation, but the sentence is too ambiguous to come to that conclusion.

And afterwards come some other arguments. Many of them came from a person that called me an idiot for rejecting them, because the arguments were based on interpretations, and consequences of an item intended to do no damage actually doing damage. The interpretations I'll ignore, but she did bring up some good points on the problems with a net doing damage.

Probably the biggest issue is that its one of the few weapons with no typed damage. So, what type of damage would it do: typed or untyped? A more minor issue is the lack of a critical modifier. This however is less of an issue, because you could easily play it as "nets cant crit". Many questions are raised when RAW seemingly defies itself.

After that It was mostly arguments related to Rules as Intended, what the symbol "-" means on the table (she pointed out that it means N/A or "cant do damage" while I argued that she was assuming too much and clarification is needed).

In summary, this brings up an interesting question. Two interesting questions for myself: Is RAW poorly written in a way that would allow nets to normally do damage and how would this work for the Warpriest? Hopefully these questions can be answered.