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Magic Weapons 101

To purchase a weapon, please comment first to tell me what weapon you are having enchanted, what bonus it already has (if any), and what you would like to add to it. I will respond with an XP quote for the final price, and then you may confirm purchase.

On a basic level, a magical weapon is a regular weapon that has been enchanted by a magic user to strike more truly and deliver more damage.

Enhancement Bonus:

Magic weapons have enhancement bonuses ranging from +1 to +5. They apply these bonuses to both attack and damage rolls when used in combat.

Example:

Knights receive an Excalibur pistol standard-issue during their equipment training. All of these weapons are enchanted by the Dragon's Fire to be +1 weapons, meaning that in combat, someone who normally has a +4 to their ranged attacks has a +5, and the weapon deals 2d6+1 dmg instead of the standard 2d6.

Special Abilities:

Some magic weapons have special abilities. In order to buy a special ability for a weapon, it must also already have at least a +1 enhancement bonus. Special abilities each have a 'cost' that rates their power. A weapon's enhancement bonus plus its total 'cost' of special abilities may not exceed 10.

Example:

Damon has a +4 longsword, which he adds the dancing special ability to. Dancing has a cost of 4. The weapon's total bonus is now considered to be 8. This does not mean you get a +8 to attacks and damage - only the +4, and then the benefits of the dancing ability. If Damon wanted to further upgrade his sword, he only has a cost of 2 left to play with - he could not, for example, add vorpal to the sword as well, as it has a cost of 5. He could make it holy, however, as the cost is merely 2.

Some magic weapons deal additional dice of damage. Unlike other modifiers to damage, additional dice of damage are not multiplied when the attacker scores a critical hit.

Usually a character benefits from a magic weapon in the same way a character benefits from a mundane weapon—by wielding (attacking with) it. If a weapon has a special ability that the user needs to activate, then the user usually needs to utter a command word (a standard action).

The Magic Weapon Shop

Buying an enhancement for a weapon is very easy. Simply consult the chart below to see how much it would cost to put the relevant bonus on a single weapon.

If a weapon already has a bonus (such as the Excalibur pistol), subtract the difference between the new bonus desired, and the bonus already on the weapon. Example: Making a +1 Excalibur pistol into a +3 weapon will cost 16,000XP.

Enhancement Bonuses
+1	2,000 XP
+2	8,000 XP
+3	18,000 XP
+4	32,000 XP
+5	50,000 XP

Once you have at least a +1 on a weapon, you may purchase a special ability for it. Each special ability has a cost. In order to determine the XP price of adding an ability, determine what the weapon's total bonus will be with the new ability:

any enhancement bonus it has + the listed cost of the special ability being added + the cost of any special abilities it may already have = total weapon bonus

Consult the chart below to see what the XP cost would be for the weapon and then subtract the cost of wherever the weapon sat on the chart before adding this new ability.

Special Ability Pricing
+1	2,000 XP
+2	8,000 XP
+3	18,000 XP
+4	32,000 XP
+5	50,000 XP
+6	72,000 XP
+7	98,000 XP
+8	128,000 XP
+9	162,000 XP
+10	200,000 XP

Example:

Revisiting Damon's longsword - his weapon is a +4 to begin with. He would like to purchase the dancing special ability for it. Dancing has a cost of 4, which will bring his weapon's total cost to 8. A +8 weapon costs 128,000 XP according to the cart... but he subtracts 32,000 XP from that, because it was already a +4 weapon to begin with. His final price is 96,000 XP to make his weapon dancing.

A scant few special abilities have a fixed XP cost, meaning you can bypass all that complicated math stuff and pay a flat XP price to add them to your weapon, no matter what the bonus on it already is. The granted weapon cost bonus is included in a separate column only because it still must abide by the 'no more than a total weapon bonus of 10' rule.

Special Abilities with a Fixed XP Cost
Special Ability	Description	XP Cost	Weapon Bonus
Impervious	Warded from damage and decay	3,000 XP	+1
Glamered	Can change appearance	4,000 XP	+1
Transformative	Become another similar melee weapon	10,000 XP	+5
Dueling	Improve Init, disarm, and feint with dueling type weapon	14,000 XP	+5
Adaptive (Ranged)	Bow that responds to the Strength of its wielder	1,000 XP	+1

All other special abilities have their XP cost determined as above, by subtracting the new total enhancement bonus' XP cost from the XP cost of however many enhancement bonuses it started with.

+1 Weapon Special Abilities
Special Ability	Description	Enhancement Bonus
Allying	Transfer enhancement bonus to an ally	+1
Bane	Excels against certain foes	+1
Benevolent	Increases aid another checks	+1
Called	Can be teleported to the wielder's hand	+1
Conductive	Channels touch spells	+1
Corrosive	Attacks add acid damage	+1
Countering	Improves disarm and sunder attempts	+1
Courageous	Fortifies wielder's courage & morale	+1
Cruel	Sickens fearful creatures	+1
Crazed	Puts wielder in a rage	+1
Deadly	Makes a nonlethal weapon lethal	+1
Defending	Increases wielder's defense	+1
Dispelling	Can cast dispel magic	+1
Flaming	Becomes sheathed in fire	+1
Frost	Becomes sheathed in ice	+1
Furious	Becomes more effective when raging	+1
Ghost Touch	Deals normal dmg vs incorporeal creatures	+1
Grounding	Effective against air & electricity	+1
Guardian	Provides bonus to saving throws	+1
Harmonizing	Improves Perform checks	+1
Heartseeker	Ignores miss chance	+1
Hunstman	Helps locate and capture quarry	+1
Impact	Doubles threat range on a bludgeoning weapon	+1
Keen	Doubles threat range on piercing or slashing weapon	+1
Ki Focus	Use ki attacks through weapon	+1
Limning	Outlines creature in faerie fire	+1
Menacing	Increases flanking bonus	+1
Merciful	Deals extra nonlethal damage	+1
Mighty Cleaving	Make one additional cleave attempt	+1
Mimetic	Grants energy resistance	+1
Neutralizing	Effective against acid and earth	+1
Ominous	Weapons has intimidating effects	+1
Planar	Effective against extraplanar creatures	+1
Quenching	Extinguishes fire	+1
Seaborne	Functions easily in water	+1
Shock	Deals electricity damage	+1
Spell Storing	Stores spells...	+1
Thawing	Effective against cold	+1
Throwing	Gains range increment	+1
Thundering	Thunders and deals sonic damage	+1
Viper	Transforms into a viper	+1
Vicious	Does extra damage to foe and wielder	+1

+2 Weapon Special Abilities
Special Ability	Description	Enhancement Bonus
Advancing	Take extra 5 foot step after attack	+2
Anarchic	Infused with the power of chaos	+2
Anchoring	Pins a target in place	+2
Axiomatic	Infused with the power of law	+2
Corrosive Burst	Explodes with searing acid	+2
Defiant	Helps wielder stay alive	+2
Dispelling Burst	Can cast greater dispel magic	+2
Disruption	Destroys undead creatures	+2
Flaming Burst	Explodes with flame	+2
Furyborn	Channels anger at foes	+2
Glorious	Glows with dazzling light	+2
Holy	Imbued with holy power	+2
Icy Burst	Explodes with frost	+2
Igniting	Causes foes to catch fire	+2
Invigorating	Invigorates wielder after killing foes	+2
Lifesurge	Boosts and sustains life energy	+2
Negating	Nullifies some damage reduction	+2
Shocking Burst	Explodes with electricity	+2
Unholy	Imbued with unholy power	+2
Wounding	Causes foes to bleed	+2

+3 Weapon Special Abilities
Special Ability	Description	Enhancement bonus
Nullifying	Suppresses a creature's Spell Resistance	+3
Spell Stealing	Siphon protective magic from a foe	+3
Speed	Grants an extra attack	+3
Clouting	Drive targets back	+3
Elemental Aura	Deal extra elemental damage	+3
Force	Emits a magical beam of force	+3
Prismatic Burst	Casts prismatic spray on foes	+3
Splitting	Ranged attacks split into two bullets/arrows	+3
Stalactite	Can turn target into stone	+3
Weakening	Deals strength damage to foes	+3

+4 or +5 Weapon Special Abilities
Special Ability	Description	Enhancement Bonus
Brilliant Energy	Partly light; attacks against touch AC	+4
Dancing	Can be loosed to attack on its own	+4
Suppressing	Completely suppress Spell Resistance	+5

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

graveflowers

I'd like to make Vi's bow a Ghost Touch weapon. It doesn't have a bonus yet, though, so I would have to get it enhanced to +1 first, I believe? I'd also like to make it Impervious so it can last another 3000 years and she can give it to Lucia. :)

From:

wynn

That looks like 11,000xp??? Impervious is a good fire sale buy.

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