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Found the best weapon in the game! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by diegooooooo@lemmy.world to c/baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world
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Could this be a bug or some Larian silliness?

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[–] hh93@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd say it's pretty much impossible that something like this happens as result of a bug

[–] Anafroj@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually, for once, it's a quite good implementation of the 5e ruleset. :)

In the Player Handbook (p.147) :

Improvised Weapons

Sometimes characters don’t have their weapons and have to attack with whatever is at hand. An improvised weapon includes any object you can wield in one or two hands, such as broken glass, a table leg, a frying pan, a wagon wheel, or a dead goblin.

Often, an improvised weapon is similar to an actual weapon and can be treated as such. For example, a table leg is akin to a club. At the DM’s option, a character proficient with a weapon can use a similar object as if it were that weapon and use his or her proficiency bonus.

An object that bears no resemblance to a weapon deals 1d4 damage (the DM assigns a damage type appropriate to the object). If a character uses a ranged weapon to make a melee attack, or throws a melee weapon that does not have the thrown property, it also deals 1d4 damage. An improvised thrown weapon has a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Improvised Weapon is also an ability in the game you can use at any time. If you're strong enough, you can even use gnomes and goblins as weapons! I killed a skeleton by throwing a rat at it in one of the later dungeons.

My monk is just Jackie Channing his way through combat. Punching, kicking, throwing chairs, swinging tables... I walk into a room and I look at every object in it and devise a way to utilize everything in battle. It's awesome. 😃

[–] Shush@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Damn, that sounds really fun! I should definitely make a monk next.

[–] diegooooooo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, probably. Sometimes this kind of thing happens in other games, they classify a prop or item as a weapon. But this seems legit. Funny though.