molten_dragon
2014-08-02, 07:29 AM
This is a question that I expect to come up in our game soon, so I thought I'd ask it ahead of time.
Does the transmuting weapon property (MiC pg 45) allow you to bypass a creature's regeneration?
We're going to be fighting a Solar soon, which has both DR and regeneration which are bypassed by epic, evil-aligned weapons. One of the guys in our party has a weapon with the transmuting property.
The key parts of the transmuting weapon property entry are:
"At the start of your next turn, however, the weapon transforms, taking on the properties required to overcome that creature's damage reduction."...
..."A transmuting weapon does not gain any other benefit of the properties it takes on, and it always deals normal damage."
The "does not gain any other benefit of the properties it takes on" leads me to believe that it doesn't bypass regeneration. But is that what the "always deals normal damage" part is referring to? Or something else.
How would you rule?
Does the transmuting weapon property (MiC pg 45) allow you to bypass a creature's regeneration?
We're going to be fighting a Solar soon, which has both DR and regeneration which are bypassed by epic, evil-aligned weapons. One of the guys in our party has a weapon with the transmuting property.
The key parts of the transmuting weapon property entry are:
"At the start of your next turn, however, the weapon transforms, taking on the properties required to overcome that creature's damage reduction."...
..."A transmuting weapon does not gain any other benefit of the properties it takes on, and it always deals normal damage."
The "does not gain any other benefit of the properties it takes on" leads me to believe that it doesn't bypass regeneration. But is that what the "always deals normal damage" part is referring to? Or something else.
How would you rule?