Personally, the only arrows I find worth making durable are adamantine ones.
For "normal" arrows, cold iron with weapon blanch (silver) is extremely cost-effective.
The mending cantrip will work on arrows.
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The mending cantrip will work on arrows.
I thought so, then realized it takes 10 minutes to repair 1 arrow ...
I doubt the rest of the group would wait while you cast Mending several times to recover a few arrows.Even gathering all the pieces for lather repair will take time.
As one of my players said late Sunday after an NPC finished a looong tale: "I have deleted all my active spells. They timed out." As they were prepared for a fight, that was several spells.
The recipe requiring cold iron is a bit strange, as it doesn't seem to do anything, and the description says "These arrows are tightly wrapped in strands of alchemical glue."
Pro "it can be done":
For arrows special materials normally meant changing the head of the arrow. That doesn't seem to interfere with: "These arrows are tightly wrapped in strands of alchemical glue."
Against it:
The cost of a durable arrow is listed as a fixed price "1 gp". Not as "cost of the arrow+1 gp".
Considering that, the RAW seems to be " you can make a durable arrow with special materials (or a masterwork one) only if the cost of the special material is expressed as +x gp or as a multiplier of the arrow base cost.
I hope that will helpè with your GM.
We long ago got tired of the ledger keeping of tracking gear (especially ammunition) to this level. We assume that a ranged character can make new ammunition during the evening camp/downtime, and will have enough made for a days worth of adventuring, thus negating the need for durable arrows. We have also discovered that DR is not usually enough of an issue to warrant the use of special materials, especially once a weapons magic bonus gets high enough to penetrate most DR's on it's own. Of course your game may differ, but we have found that getting rid of this level of bookkeeping freed game time up so that we can concentrate on the other aspects of game.
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especially once a weapons magic bonus gets high enough to penetrate most DR's on it's own.
Regardless of the +X of the bow, the arrow counts only as magic for bypassing DR.
An aligned bow will share its alignment.Magic Ranged Weapons and Ammunition: When a ranged weapon shares its enhancement bonus with its ammunition, does this count as “true” enhancement bonus or more like a temporary bonus like greater magic weapon? In other words, does the shared enhancement bonus allow the arrow to bypass damage reduction as if it was cold iron, silver, adamantine, and aligned?
No, other than the ways indicated in the Core Rulebook (if the ranged weapon is at least +1, they count as magic, and if the ranged weapon is aligned they count as that alignment as well) the enhancement bonus granted to ammunition from the ranged weapon doesn’t help them overcome the other types of damage reduction. Archers and other such characters can buy various sorts of ammunition or ammunition with a high enhancement bonus to overcome the various types of damage reduction.
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especially once a weapons magic bonus gets high enough to penetrate most DR's on it's own.Regardless of the +X of the bow, the arrow counts only as magic for bypassing DR.
An aligned bow will share its alignment.Magic Ranged Weapons and Ammunition: When a ranged weapon shares its enhancement bonus with its ammunition, does this count as “true” enhancement bonus or more like a temporary bonus like greater magic weapon? In other words, does the shared enhancement bonus allow the arrow to bypass damage reduction as if it was cold iron, silver, adamantine, and aligned?
No, other than the ways indicated in the Core Rulebook (if the ranged weapon is at least +1, they count as magic, and if the ranged weapon is aligned they count as that alignment as well) the enhancement bonus granted to ammunition from the ranged weapon doesn’t help them overcome the other types of damage reduction. Archers and other such characters can buy various sorts of ammunition or ammunition with a high enhancement bonus to overcome the various types of damage reduction.
posted May 2017 | back to top
Many of the FAQ's are BS at many tables. This is an example of a rules complication that was not needed.
But ok, so the ammunition doesn't go through DR, It's not difficult to deal enough damage and get enough attacks for DR to be a non issue even for ranged. Our table usually forgets that high enhancement bonus weapons go through DR anyway, and we don't have an issue taking down bad guys with substantial DR.