Ad placeholder
Flame Blade: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Dual wielding idiosyncrasies - an attempt to document the conditions under which the blade is summoned to one hand or the other, and what happens when it ends. It's consistent for me, but please correct me if I've missed a piece of this puzzle.
No edit summary |
(Dual wielding idiosyncrasies - an attempt to document the conditions under which the blade is summoned to one hand or the other, and what happens when it ends. It's consistent for me, but please correct me if I've missed a piece of this puzzle.) |
||
| Line 64: | Line 64: | ||
** Charisma will always be the spellcasting ability for the version learned by Tieflings. | ** Charisma will always be the spellcasting ability for the version learned by Tieflings. | ||
* When the spell ends, the caster will automatically re-equip the weapon they had equipped when they cast the spell, without costing an Action Point. | * When the spell ends, the caster will automatically re-equip the weapon they had equipped when they cast the spell, without costing an Action Point. | ||
* If the caster is wielding a Light weapon in their main hand | * If the caster is wielding a Light weapon in their main hand (or has the Dual Wielder feat and is wielding a non-Two-Handed weapon in their main hand), the blade will be dual wielded with that main-hand weapon: | ||
** If the caster was already wielding a weapon in their off hand when the spell was cast, the blade will replace that off hand weapon. When the spell ends like this (with the blade in the off hand), the weapon that was previously in the off hand will NOT be re-equipped, and the off hand is left empty. | |||
** If instead the off hand was empty when the spell was cast, the blade will be summoned in the main hand, and the weapon that was previously equipped in the main hand will be moved to the off hand. When the spell ends like this, that original weapon will be moved back to the main hand, with the off hand now empty. | |||
* The incantation for Flame Blade is '''Para Bellum''', Latin for "prepare for war". | * The incantation for Flame Blade is '''Para Bellum''', Latin for "prepare for war". | ||
| video = | | video = | ||