Question regarding reduce / enlarge person

[Tynor]

Hello, this is one of my few post I've made here on paizo so ... hello all but back to the question now.

I read it somewhere that using a ranged weapon with the size modifided via those spells, you treat your long range damage as your original size (or of that weapon you are using) while melee weapons get buffed due to the size increased and not leaving your hand while swinging the weapon.

So a elf wizard (for the sake of something) would use enlarge person and attack with his long sword the damage would go from 1d8 to 2d6 (right so far?), but using his bow with enlarged, his damage remains 1d8, and reduce person is like that just lower the damage size one lower ... right?

those spells been giving me a headace for some time now, hope you can shed some light on those spells for me.

[Blave]

There is a somewhat strange difference between the two spells. Enlarge Person increses damage from melee weapons only, while Reduce Person lowers the damage from melee and projectile weapons. Neither affect thrown weapons.

[Tynor]

Blave wrote:

There is a somewhat strange difference between the two spells. Enlarge Person increses damage from melee weapons only, while Reduce Person lowers the damage from melee and projectile weapons. Neither affect thrown weapons.

Now that is wierd, here I tought the spell mirriored each others ... oh well.

Thank you for the reply, greatly apriciated

[Howie23]

Tynor wrote:

Now that is wierd, here I tought the spell mirriored each others ... oh well.

In 3.5, they were mirror images. Thrown weapons returned to original size. Projectile weapons weapons did damage as the weapon that fired them. This meant, for example, that an enlarged archer did 2d6 damage per arrow.

The current solution, to me, is inelegent due to the lack of reciprocity.

[Tynor]

Well, there went my combo of using enlarge person+gravity bow as a low level wizard, oh well.

[mdt]

Simple solution,
Carry a Large bow and large arrows. Then have enlarge cast on you, and use the large bow at that point (ie: Drop the bow/arrows, get spell cast, pick back up again).

I'd probably rule as a GM that if you had Large arrows and a medium bow, you could fire the large arrows from your bow while enlarged and still do large bow damage (the bow is large when it fires the large arrows, the arrows don't drop in size, so do large damage).