I was wondering about if there was an official ruling on this. I know that while splash weapons deal damage differently, they are technically ranged weapons, so can they be deflected with deflect arrows?
By RAW, it seems that yes, you can deflect a splash weapon. However, this seems to cause the splash weapon to miss, so you would have to calculate the direction the "miss" landed and you would then calculate splash damage based on its final location. As you cannot deflect the splash damage, your arrow deflecting character would be subject to it.
hmm my judgement there would probably be that if the splash weapon hits and is deflected then it is deflected to a random square as though it missed, however if the thrown weapon missed and would cause splash damage(and is in range of the deflecter of course) than they can deflect it another 5 feet, and hopefully get out of the splash zone.
still this does now lead to the awesome scenario of alchemists tossing bombs and a monk with snatch arrows just flinging that straight back at him.
hmm my judgement there would probably be that if the splash weapon hits and is deflected then it is deflected to a random square as though it missed, however if the thrown weapon missed and would cause splash damage(and is in range of the deflecter of course) than they can deflect it another 5 feet, and hopefully get out of the splash zone.
still this does now lead to the awesome scenario of alchemists tossing bombs and a monk with snatch arrows just flinging that straight back at him.
Not at all actually.
An Alchemists' bombs go off as soon as they make contact. Deflect/Snatch Arrows requires contact, thus the bomb explodes with no chance at deflection/snatching.
interesting. well that definitely makes the alchemists a much more viable threat for the monk at my table.
interesting. well that definitely makes the alchemists a much more viable threat for the monk at my table.
The Monks touch AC is still off the chain most of the time