Can ANY elf use a weapon with the word "elven" in its name? Example: can a elf druid wield a Elven Curved Blade? This is probably common knowledge, but I have looked for a long time and can't find the answer.
Weapon Familiarity: Elves are proficient with longbows (including composite longbows), longswords, rapiers, and shortbows (including composite shortbows), and treat any weapon with the word “elven” in its name as a martial weapon.
Emphasis mine.
If the elven druid spends a feat to take Martial Weapon Proficiency in the elven curved blade, then yes, the druid can use the weapon without penalty. Otherwise, the druid takes a -4 nonproficiency penalty to use the weapon.
Can ANY elf use a weapon with the word "elven" in its name? Example: can a elf druid wield a Elven Curved Blade? This is probably common knowledge, but I have looked for a long time and can't find the answer.
Elves get a racial called Weapon Familiarity(Corerulebook page 22) that says they are proficient with longbows, shortbows, long swords and rapiers and treat any weapon with elven in the name as a martial weapon. Which means no a elf druid would not automatically be proficient with a Elven Curve blade (though may take the Feat Martial Weapon Prof to be.) but a fighter would be automatically prof with it since they get all Martial Weapon prof.
Also do note that Druids are not prohibited from using using any weapons anymore (unlike previous editions of the game).
Hope that helps.
Can ANY elf use a weapon with the word "elven" in its name? Example: can a elf druid wield a Elven Curved Blade? This is probably common knowledge, but I have looked for a long time and can't find the answer.
Yes & No
"Weapon Familiarity: Elves are proficient with longbows (including composite longbows), longswords, rapiers, and shortbows (including composite shortbows), and treat any weapon with the word “elven” in its name as a martial weapon."
Druid Weapons:
"Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Druids are proficient with the following weapons: club, dagger, dart, quarterstaff, scimitar, scythe, sickle, shortspear, sling, and spear. They are also proficient with all natural attacks (claw, bite, and so forth) of any form they assume with wild shape (see below).
Druids are proficient with light and medium armor but are prohibited from wearing metal armor; thus, they may wear only padded, leather, or hide armor. A druid may also wear wooden armor that has been altered by the ironwood spell so that it functions as though it were steel. Druids are proficient with shields (except tower shields) but must use only those crafted from wood.
A druid who wears prohibited armor or uses a prohibited shield is unable to cast druid spells or use any of her supernatural or spell-like class abilities while doing so and for 24 hours thereafter."
Druids are not proficient with Martial Weapons, so no.
But nothing stops them from taking the Exotic (or Martial in this case) Weapon Proficiency (Elven Curved Blade)feat, so yes.
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My group and I are just switching over to Pathfinder after a 4 year campaign in D&D 2nd edition and having some learning issues, but we love Pathfinder and playing Society games at Origins and GenCon, so I'm trying to get my lvl. 2 druid squared away before Origins this weekend. I think I'll spend my gold on a masterwork composite longbow and if I don't acquire a better melee weapon than my longsword by the time I earn my next feat, then I will use it to get elven curved sword proficiency. Thanks again.
No problem.
If you already have a PFS scenario under your belt, you can spend 2 prestige points on a darkwood masterwork composite longbow, +2 strength mod (or any other single item worth up to 750 gold pieces).
If you want to make a longbow (or any ranged weapon) your primary weapon, don't forget to pick up Precise Shot to avoid the -4 for shooting into melee. (You'll need Point Blank Shot first, though.)
If you already have a PFS scenario under your belt, you can spend 2 prestige points on a darkwood masterwork composite longbow, +2 strength mod (or any other single item worth up to 750 gold pieces).
If you want to make a longbow (or any ranged weapon) your primary weapon, don't forget to pick up Precise Shot to avoid the -4 for shooting into melee. (You'll need Point Blank Shot first, though.)
Thanks Gwen, I'll have to figure out how/where to spend my prestige, that bow sounds like a good idea.