An overpowered weapon [Archive] - Wizards Community

An overpowered weapon [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Exomnium
10-28-03, 06:40 PM When you have a magical psionic weapon, do the bonuses stack for determining cost? or do they overlap? Since you need a bonus to have a special ability, do you need two inorder to have both magical and psionic weapon? Also wouldn't a vorpral coud de grace manifester longsword be a bit powerful and yet not epic?
BlackSmith
10-29-03, 10:09 AM what is "vorpral coud de grace manifester longsword"?

vorpal works every time you roll natural 20.
not once per day.

and for the price calculation, they stack.
Exomnium
10-31-03, 07:15 AM I know how the vorpral ability works but the coup de grace ability allows you to take a coup de grace against a non helpless creature once per day if you hit. This is automatically a critical hit. The manifester ability alows you to do something like coup de grace more than the alowed number of times per day.
Edymnion
10-31-03, 09:22 AM I'd say they still took up plusses.
Ability to get a CdG against a non-helpless foe (even if it is just once per day)? I'd say thats on about the same power level as Vorpal, if not more powerful, so +5 enchantment for it alone. I mean, stick that on a flaming burst heavy pick, and you just garunteed an instant kill of almost anything in one swing. And as a +5, you couldn't have a CdG Vorpal weapon, since it has to be +1 before enchantments could be added, and ye can't go past +10 total pre-epic.

Although a CdG Scythe would be a fun weapon to give Death.
Naar
10-31-03, 10:42 AM Psionic weapon abilities and magical weapon abilities stack for determining price. In other words, a vorpal manifester coup de grace weapon would be at least a +15 weapon (and overkill, too).

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Exomnium 10-28-03, 06:40 PM	When you have a magical psionic weapon, do the bonuses stack for determining cost? or do they overlap? Since you need a bonus to have a special ability, do you need two inorder to have both magical and psionic weapon? Also wouldn't a vorpral coud de grace manifester longsword be a bit powerful and yet not epic?
BlackSmith 10-29-03, 10:09 AM	what is "vorpral coud de grace manifester longsword"? vorpal works every time you roll natural 20. not once per day. and for the price calculation, they stack.
Exomnium 10-31-03, 07:15 AM	I know how the vorpral ability works but the coup de grace ability allows you to take a coup de grace against a non helpless creature once per day if you hit. This is automatically a critical hit. The manifester ability alows you to do something like coup de grace more than the alowed number of times per day.
Edymnion 10-31-03, 09:22 AM	I'd say they still took up plusses. Ability to get a CdG against a non-helpless foe (even if it is just once per day)? I'd say thats on about the same power level as Vorpal, if not more powerful, so +5 enchantment for it alone. I mean, stick that on a flaming burst heavy pick, and you just garunteed an instant kill of almost anything in one swing. And as a +5, you couldn't have a CdG Vorpal weapon, since it has to be +1 before enchantments could be added, and ye can't go past +10 total pre-epic. Although a CdG Scythe would be a fun weapon to give Death.
Naar 10-31-03, 10:42 AM	Psionic weapon abilities and magical weapon abilities stack for determining price. In other words, a vorpal manifester coup de grace weapon would be at least a +15 weapon (and overkill, too).