Rule on oils and ammunition?

[zauriel56]

Is there somewhere it states how much ammunition can an oil be applied to? If I have an oil of bless weapon can it only be applied to 1 arrow, 50 arrows or some other number? I know it says weapon touched in spell description but I thought ammunition was different than a weapon.

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

For most purposes 50 pieces of ammo act like one weapon, but bless weapon specifies "Individual arrows or bolts can be transmuted, but affected projectile weapons (such as bows) don't confer the benefit to the projectiles they shoot." I don't see that making the spell into an oil should make it vastly more efficient, so I'd say it applies to one piece of ammo, like poison.

[Meirril]

As with any potion, refer to the spell it is. Bless Weapon targets 1 weapon, and can affect ammunition. The spell says 'individual arrows or bolts can be transmuted' and gives no special provision for ammunition so my feeling is the correct ruling would be 1 arrow.

[zauriel56]

So if I wanted 50 ammunition coated with the good alignment I’d have to use an oil of align weapon in order to be cost effective, right?

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

zauriel56 wrote:

So if I wanted 50 ammunition coated with the good alignment I’d have to use an oil of align weapon in order to be cost effective, right?

Yeah, that should work.