artimus261
2017-03-13, 10:28 AM
I recently stumbled upon the Crescent Knife and liked it in concept but found that getting 2 attacks for every one was a little ridiculous and from everything I've read I wasn't alone but still think it could be saved with one simple touch that would still make it a fairly unique and remarkable little thing. Gonna just post it as a weapon entry below and see what ya'll think :)
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Crescent Knife
Cost: 20gp, Damage: 1d3, Critical: x2, Weight: 1lb, Type: Slashing.
This weapon, which resembles a crescent-shaped blade affixed to a crossbar handle, allows its wielder to make an extra attack during a full attack action. The extra attack is made at the user's full base attack bonus. However due to the weight and particular craft of this blade a user must rely on speed as opposed to strength and can only apply 1/2 of his Strength modifier as a bonus on the damage rolls during a full attack action.
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The big thing about this is that unlike all other effects that allow additional attacks this cute little knife doesn't apply the normal -2 penalty. While that is truly amazing, allowing even a level 1 rogue 2 attacks at his full(+0 haha) base attack bonus, I think that with the lack of a threat range and the 1d3 weapon damage it really doesn't throw things out of wack. I mean the most abuse out of it I could see would be a level 1 character with two-weapon fighting dual-wielding these bad boys and getting 4 attacks early game, which even then would still incur the normal -2 on all attacks from dual-wielding and even then each attack would still only be getting 1/2 the user's strength for damage. Seems steep maybe but between two hits the 1/2 str effectively applies the full strength in damage along with 2d3, and if it ever gets enchanted or a fighter starts piling on specializations i think this thing could still prove pretty lethal
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Crescent Knife
Cost: 20gp, Damage: 1d3, Critical: x2, Weight: 1lb, Type: Slashing.
This weapon, which resembles a crescent-shaped blade affixed to a crossbar handle, allows its wielder to make an extra attack during a full attack action. The extra attack is made at the user's full base attack bonus. However due to the weight and particular craft of this blade a user must rely on speed as opposed to strength and can only apply 1/2 of his Strength modifier as a bonus on the damage rolls during a full attack action.
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The big thing about this is that unlike all other effects that allow additional attacks this cute little knife doesn't apply the normal -2 penalty. While that is truly amazing, allowing even a level 1 rogue 2 attacks at his full(+0 haha) base attack bonus, I think that with the lack of a threat range and the 1d3 weapon damage it really doesn't throw things out of wack. I mean the most abuse out of it I could see would be a level 1 character with two-weapon fighting dual-wielding these bad boys and getting 4 attacks early game, which even then would still incur the normal -2 on all attacks from dual-wielding and even then each attack would still only be getting 1/2 the user's strength for damage. Seems steep maybe but between two hits the 1/2 str effectively applies the full strength in damage along with 2d3, and if it ever gets enchanted or a fighter starts piling on specializations i think this thing could still prove pretty lethal