[3.5/PF] Ignore Natural 1 for Crystalline Weapon?

[Sheogoroth]

Pathfinder has the True Crystalline (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/equipment/special-materials/#TOC-Crystalline)special material which Completely ignores armor bonuses.

The drawback is that the weapon costs 200x normal and shatters on a 1!

The obvious thing to do is just use arrows, but I'm looking for means of mitigating this massive drawback for weapons. I seem to remember a feat or class feature that lets you ignore a 1 and treat it as a 2.

Thanks!

[ATHATH]

If 3.5 material is allowed, one of the parts of the 1d2 Crusader's "engine" should work.

[Telonius]

This thread (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?260600-Ways-to-get-the-quot-on-a-natural-1-reroll-quot-ability) has some ideas. More along the lines of rerolling 1s, not ignoring them. Still, changing a 1/20 chance to a 1/400 chance is a big improvement.

[TheFurith]

I remember reading something somewhere about deities being able to taker twenty on attack rolls. Which I'm sure is less than helpful, but becoming a god would fix that problem. A few others as well. Probably.

[Elder_Basilisk]

Pack a law domain cleric. Choose to take 11 for all your attacks. Good until the domain abilities run out for the day.

[Deophaun]

Have a backup weapon and someone capable of casting make whole.

[Fouredged Sword]

Buy something cheap and cast greater magic weapon on it and call it a day. A greatax is what, 200x20, so 4000gp? Expensive, but consider the much more reasonable glaive, where you are only shelling out 1600gp. Yes, it can break. Don't even bother with masterwork.

Funny enough, you can make a true crystal wooden stake. It is free. Carry 20 of them.

[BearonVonMu]

Pathfinder has a +1 weapon enchantment that makes your attack rolls with 2d10 instead of 1d20. It is difficult to roll a 1 on 2d10.
It is called lesser probability.
Greater probability is a +2 weapon enchantment that makes your attack rolls use 5d4.

[Necroticplague]

Pathfinder has a +1 weapon enchantment that makes your attack rolls with 2d10 instead of 1d20. It is difficult to roll a 1 on 2d10.
It is called lesser probability.
Greater probability is a +2 weapon enchantment that makes your attack rolls use 5d4.

Can I get a link to or a source on that? That sounds like it would be awesome for a firearm build to avoid dealing with misfire, but I can't seem to find it on the pfsrd.

[BearonVonMu]

Can I get a link to or a source on that? That sounds like it would be awesome for a firearm build to avoid dealing with misfire, but I can't seem to find it on the pfsrd.


http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/3rd-party-magic-items/3rd-party-magic-weapons/weapon-properties/alluria-publishing/probability-weapon/

And yes, it is absolutely fantastic for firearms, but that wasn't the question this thread asked.
The question you would have to ask yourself is: Is it worth having no misfire chance when you also have almost no chance to get a natural 20 and add all those d4s every shot?

[lagninja]

Not very helpful unless you are using 3rd party, though.

[Deophaun]

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/3rd-party-magic-items/3rd-party-magic-weapons/weapon-properties/alluria-publishing/probability-weapon/
OK, so basically someone scraped their lunch money together to get their homebrew published for that. Not actual PF content.

[Necroticplague]

To be fair, the True Crystalline material is also 3rd party.

[Thurbane]

Depending how much WBL you have to burn, Phaant's Luckstones (Ghostwalk p.72): slotless, one use items (1000gp each) that give you a re-roll as per the Luck domain.

It's probably not RAI, but I believe by RAW if you are unlucky enough to roll two natural 1s in a row, you could use up a second Luckstone for another re-roll.