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[The Vorpal Tribble]

I was working on an NPC and noticed something very peculiar... if you enchant bolas with the returning enhancement... do you not only trip your enemy but also bring him back? :smallyuk:

[Orzel]

I don't think so.
I belive it is counted as held by the trip victim.

The funny thing. A returning bolas must be removed by the tripped victim's hands. Otherwise, it'll be recaught by your legs... tripping you.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

I don't think so.
I belive it is counted as held by the trip victim.

The funny thing. A returning bolas must be removed by the tripped victim's hands. Otherwise, it'll be recaught by your legs... tripping you.
Eh? In what book did you derive that from? :smallconfused:

[Maxymiuk]

Hmm... the SRD has no clues on how to deal with that...

Houserule a Strength check for the weapon to start dragging the opponent towards the owner at a rate of 5-10ft per round?

[Orzel]

the Book Of Orzel Deeds

Seriously there's no official ruling I could find.(but I didn't tried hard to find it). I tried this before. It must be house ruled.

[brian c]

If you miss it probably would come back, but if I DMed someone who tried to say that I'd rule that on a successful hit (and trip) the bolas would be unable to be removed from the tripped person except by the thrower

[Indon]

I had the same thoughts on a Returning Net of Distance; make fish-catching easy!

[daggaz]

Why would it automatically trip you? You outta get a chance to catch it, and if you fail, it makes a trip attempt on you. Thats if you are playing hardcore tho and dont allow automatic catching by the thrower, which most DM's do for returning weapons.

Personally, I wouldn't say it brings the creature back with it, unless that creature was pretty damn small. It works by wrapping around the legs of a victim... I would say that cancels the effects of return.

[JaronK]

Returning Harpoon is a great one that works really well... a War Hulk with Brutal Throw and a few of those is downright scary.

JaronK

[Fizban]

The bolas say nothing about wrapping around the target in their description, and therefore return just like any other weapon. Who needs realism?

[RandomNPC]

in my game they wouldn't work, i have the returning item teleport back, solves all kinds of problems.

[cupkeyk]

But bolas don't grapple opponents, they trip them. They don't entangle a persons legs, so as much as a tripped person can stand up and continue moving the next round, the bolas would return normally.

[Wild_Chinchilla]

So if you had a harpoon with the enchantment, would it rip itself back out to return to you? Owwww

[cupkeyk]

There is an enhancement with that ability, exiting or something of the sort.