Coating Your Weapon With Lamp Oil?

[Daxiongmao87]

What's the reality behind coating your weapon with lamp oil and lighting it on fire for extra damage?

What are some neat tricks you've used in your sessions that you're proud of?

[MrRed]

Frankly, as a GM I would not allow it to enchance your melee damage (I guess that is what you are aiming for). Lamp oil wouldnt last more than a swing or two and spill all over.

[Wyrmholez]

One hit or maybe one round of +1d4 fire damage.

I used an Immovable rod to pretty well guarantee that I wasn't going to get bull rushed off a ledge. They also "lock" doors really well. I've attempted to use one against a borrowing critter that swallowed me whole but my DM vetoed it.

We used Ring gates (not sure they are in Pathfinder yet) as a portable murder hole.

One of my buddies when he was DMing made suicide bombers via Bag of Holding and Portable hole. Not cost effective but very effective!

Smoke stick to cover up the sovereign glue on the floor.

I'm sure there have been more but I don't remember them.

[Daxiongmao87]

Thanks for the tips guys. Immovable rod sounds like a nifty item to have!

I read on another thread of using flour to pinpoint invisible creatures as well and found that pretty clever, not sure if that's a common trick or not since I'm still rather new!

[Velix Okah]

Carry a ten foot pole.
Poke around for traps, pole vault a gap, create a bridge across a gap, lever up something heavy, knock over things from a safe distance, poke a dragon and get a 5ft head start, bar doors, see if the jelly on the ceiling will dissolve you or not...

[Daxiongmao87]

Will that work with deep pockets, by the way?

[shiiktan]

Archer went home early, then we got attacked by a dragon.

Cleric cast wall of thorns 40 ft high and the dragon got caught in it.

Wizard cast hungry pit under the column of thorns and "elevator"-ed the dragon down into melee range.

[Daxiongmao87]

Hilarious!

[C Overton]

There is the grenadier archetype that allows you to coat weapons with Alchemist's Fire, Acid and the like.
If an Alchemist grenadier wanted to use lamp oil because they were running low on the alchemical weapons, I would think that would be kosher. (Novice GM. Set me straight if that's not.)
Other classes? I'd give d4 extra damage for one strike and, given the weapon material, it may gain the fragile condition after excessive use.

[Ross Byers]

Wyrmholez wrote:

I've attempted to use one against a borrowing critter that swallowed me whole but my DM vetoed it.

Ha! Good one. I'll have to remember that.