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Drow Weapons
Weapon
Simple Weapons
Cost Dmg (S) Dmg (M) Critical Range
Increment
Weight Type
Breakblade
Exotic Weapons
4 gp 1d3 1d4 19-20/x2* - 1 lb. Piercing
Chain, barbed
Ranged Weapons
30 gp 1d6** 2d4** x2 - 10 lb. Piercing
Ceramic bulb
arrow (20)
5 gp As bow As bow As bow As bow 4 lb. Piercing
Ceramic bulb 5 gp As As As
As crossbow 2 lb. Piercing
bolt (10)
crossbow crossbow crossbow
Ceramic sling
bullet (10)
4 gp As sling As sling As sling As sling 4 lb. Bludgeoning
* This weapon’s properties allow it to do increased damage on any hit that inflicts full damage, or on a critical hit. See description for
details.
** This weapon may entangle a foe and cause additional damage. See description for details.
himself as part of the attack action, causing 1d4 damage
to the target (in addition to the weapon damage already
imposed). If the attacker rolls a natural 1 on his attack roll
with a barbed chain, the cruel hooks of the weapon snag
on one another, and the attacker must spend 1d3 rounds
untangling the chain before it can be effectively used as a
weapon again.
Breakblade
These daggers seem on inspection to be the epitome of
shoddy craftsmanship, as, indeed, they are meant to be.
Generally used as an off-hand weapon, the breakblade will
shatter inside the wound on any strike that does maximum
damage or scores a critical hit. The jagged shards of metal
will continue to cause damage as long as the target engages
in strenuous activity (like combat), inflicting 1d2 points
of damage every round until magical healing or the Heal
skill is applied to the subject. Breakblades often have a
hollow core, containing a reservoir of poison to be dumped
into the wound alongside the broken shards of metal. The
intentionally poor construction of a breakblade gives it half
the hardness and hit points of a normal weapon of its type.
Ceramic bulb arrow
The ceramic bulb arrow is made by the drow of House
Pelshothe. Behind the razor-sharp ceramic tip of the
arrow is a hollow ceramic bulb, intended to burst when it
enters the target’s body. House Pelshothe is nothing if not
resourceful, and over the years have filled the hollow bulbs
of their arrows with all manner of things. Most commonly,
the bulbs are filled with poison, or with a pebble on which a
spell of some kind has been cast (such as darkness, which,
confined by the bulb, now plunges the target of the arrow
into pitch dark). Most famous, however, are the bulb
arrows filled with black pudding, grey ooze or ochre jelly.
For more information about ceramic items, see the entry in
this chapter.
Ceramic bulb bolt
As a ceramic bulb arrow, but made for crossbows.
Ceramic sling bullet
Ceramic sling bullets mimic the ceramic bulb ammunition
in many ways, but are, if anything, more versatile. Though
often simply a hurled version of the bulb ammunition, some
ceramic sling bullets actually come in two hemispheres,
held together by a bit of adhesive. This makes it easier
to add something such as poison to the ammunition at the
last minute. A side effect of this split construction of the
ceramic sling bullets has been capitalised on recently by
House Pelshothe with the addition of fire trap spells to the
ammunition.
Armour
The drow commonly wear armour of steel for protection,
and armour composed of mithral and adamantine is more
frequently seen in the lands of the dark elves than in any
nation of the surface world. However, the drow have
also adopted materials for armour that are rarely, if ever,
seen outside the Underdeep. From the grotesquery of
boneforged armour to the bright colours of ceramic to the
hides of strange beasts, the drow have learned to use every
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