The group I'm running through The Dragon's Demand just completed Tula's Crypt, and one of the rewards is a +1 Keen Composite (+2 STR) Longbow. The problem, of course, is that Keen can only be applied to a slashing or piercing *melee* weapon. This appears to be a typo, but I haven't seen any errata to correct it. Any suggestions?
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The group I'm running through The Dragon's Demand just completed Tula's Crypt, and one of the rewards is a +1 Keen Composite (+2 STR) Longbow. The problem, of course, is that Keen can only be applied to a slashing or piercing *melee* weapon. This appears to be a typo, but I haven't seen any errata to correct it. Any suggestions?
I just ignored the requirement on keen. A magic longbow that imparts keen on ammunition it fires sounds cool.
Cool trumps nitpicky rules.
-Skeld
I'd just run with it. Special magic bow.
Just smile when the player asks if they can have one for a different PC..
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This came up in another thread.
It's intentional. Sometimes we tweak the rules and put in treasures that you normally wouldn't be able to find, in an attempt to make finding treasure more exciting and more interesting than a shopping trip.
Usually those new treasures are so new that we have to put in a new magic item to detail the rules for the item... but in a case like a keen longbow, no new rules are needed since it's obvious what it does.
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heh. why would it impart the keen property on its ammunition? I say this is a keeper weapon for a monk of the empty hand, who can actually use it to cut people (keenly! even) by swinging it around.
Probably for the same reasons that a flaming bow would impart flaming on the ammunition fired from it. Or a frost bow. Or etc. Arrows are piercing weapons after all.
-Skeld