Painful Injection

[James Birmingham]

"When you hit an enemy with a weapon with the injection weapon special property, you can cause the ammunition (whatever it may be) to lodge painfully in that creature’s body. The target takes an additional amount of damage equal to half your key ability modifier."

Does this work with melee injection weapons? If so, do they have to be injecting something (an inhibitor, poison, etc) to get the damage boost or would an 'empty' syringe stick get the bonus damage?

[The Artificer]

Yes it works with melee.
An "empty" syringe should work as well.

[James Birmingham]

The Artificer wrote:

Yes it works with melee.

An "empty" syringe should work as well.

Thanks - and is the damage type the same as the weapon's or the rare 'untyped' damage?

[The Artificer]

James Birmingham wrote:

The Artificer wrote:

Yes it works with melee.

An "empty" syringe should work as well.

Thanks - and is the damage type the same as the weapon's or the rare 'untyped' damage?

Bonus damage applied to weapons always uses the damage type of said weapon unless otherwise stated.