Weapon Bond

Weapon Bond is an Eldritch Knight class action. This prevents the Fighter's main hand weapon from being disarmed and makes it automatically return to the Fighter when thrown.

Description

Ritually bind the weapon in your main hand. The weapon can't be knocked out of your hand, and it automatically returns to you when thrown.

Properties

Cost:

 Action

Details:

 Range: Self

Duration: Until Long rest

Condition: Bound Weapon

 Bound Weapon

• Ritually bound to its wielder.
• The weapon can't be knocked out of the wielder's hand, and automatically returns to its wielder when thrown.

How to learn

Classes:

• Class level 3: Eldritch Knight

Notes

• This applies only to the weapon held in the caster's main hand.
• Only one weapon can be bound at a time. Attempting to bind another weapon causes the previous to be unbound.
• Works only with melee weapons.
• This effect is well-suited to thrown weapons given to characters who utilize the  Tavern Brawler feat.
• Know that binding a weapon does not grant it the  Thrown property if it does not already have it. Only weapons with the Thrown property do their full weapon damage, including any added elemental effects (such as from the  Flawed Helldusk Gloves); otherwise they only do basic damage of an Improvised Weapon based purely on their weight.

Bugs

• Bound weapons thrown outside of combat do not return to their owner's hands.
• The  Bound Weapon condition lacks the Attributed(InventoryBound) code that is otherwise found on  Bind Pact Weapon and  Bind Hexed Weapon. Although this was (apparently) done to allow a bound weapon to be  Thrown, it also has the side effect of allowing an Eldritch Knight to give their bound weapon to any other character to use to the same effect. Thus, outside of a long rest, this condition persists even if:
  • the caster is removed from the active party
  • the caster respecs with  Withers to another class
  • the caster is dismissed back to the ⁠Fugue Plane

For example: one can acquire a hireling, select the Eldritch Knight subclass at level 3, apply the bond to a weapon intended for another character, hand it back to them, then respec the hireling to a completely different class, remove them from the active party and / or dismiss them entirely.