Magus Arcane Pool and Thrown Weapon


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If a magus uses his arcane pool to enchant a weapon, is the weapon still enchanted if he throws it? That is, if I spend an arcane pool to make a javelin +1, is it still +1 after I throw it?

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The wording specifies that no one else may take advantage of the enchantment, but does not say that the enchantment ends when the weapon leaves the magus's hand.


Honestly, I'd allow that. RAW it seems that the bonus is lost when the weapon left your hand, but I would make an exception for thrown weapons, and let count the bonus for to hit and damage, after wich the weapon lose the added enanchement. It should not unbalance. However I don't see why someone want that: it's really expensive in terms of arcane pool points: at least 1 for each weapon you throw... really bad.

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Blackstorm wrote:
Honestly, I'd allow that. RAW it seems that the bonus is lost when the weapon left your hand, but I would make an exception for thrown weapons, and let count the bonus for to hit and damage, after wich the weapon lose the added enanchement. It should not unbalance. However I don't see why someone want that: it's really expensive in terms of arcane pool points: at least 1 for each weapon you throw... really bad.

I probably won't do it often. My black blade may be jealous if I enchant other weapons.


Straight up RAW is:

The bonus lasts for 1 minute.
The bonus does not function for anyone but the magus.

Nothing in the rules suggests the bonus is lost if the weapon leaves the magus hands (if it did disarm would be a top priority against any magus you wanted to make burn arcane points).

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