I have gotten a Darkwood Longbow made in my campaign. Since this is a mastercraft weapon do I get +1 on my attack roll or +1 damage? Or is it still a regular longbow just lighter.
I don't believe that mastercraft/masterwork is a weapon property in 5E. I'm not familiar with Darkwood as a material type in 5E, what book does it show up in?
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In this edition there are no “mastercraft” items, it would just be a regular longbow. If you wanna make it lighter that won’t really make much of a difference.
There used to be the masterwork property in earlier editions, it would give a non magical +1 to hit. Darkwood is also just a different material, there were many such as Ironwood which was as strong as steel and could be used to fashion breastplate or plate armour etc. Flame touched Iron could be used to get around the resistance of certain fiends / undead, then there was cold iron which was used against fey or some kinds of demons. It is due to the metal ore properties and how they are crafted and not magical bonuses but you could enchant them so you had for example a +1 flametouched shortsword. Darkwood weapons were considered masterwork and weighed 50% of the normal weight of the normal weapon, but that was it. +1 to hit (non magical) and weight 50% reduction.
However 5e did away with masterwork crafting and all special material properties except for mithril, adamantine, and silver because they are too engrained in fantasy whereas the others are relatively unknown.
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I have gotten a Darkwood Longbow made in my campaign. Since this is a mastercraft weapon do I get +1 on my attack roll or +1 damage? Or is it still a regular longbow just lighter.
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I don't believe that mastercraft/masterwork is a weapon property in 5E. I'm not familiar with Darkwood as a material type in 5E, what book does it show up in?
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
I believe someone is using a 3.5 material and masterwork rules.
In this edition there are no “mastercraft” items, it would just be a regular longbow. If you wanna make it lighter that won’t really make much of a difference.
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There used to be the masterwork property in earlier editions, it would give a non magical +1 to hit. Darkwood is also just a different material, there were many such as Ironwood which was as strong as steel and could be used to fashion breastplate or plate armour etc. Flame touched Iron could be used to get around the resistance of certain fiends / undead, then there was cold iron which was used against fey or some kinds of demons. It is due to the metal ore properties and how they are crafted and not magical bonuses but you could enchant them so you had for example a +1 flametouched shortsword. Darkwood weapons were considered masterwork and weighed 50% of the normal weight of the normal weapon, but that was it. +1 to hit (non magical) and weight 50% reduction.
However 5e did away with masterwork crafting and all special material properties except for mithril, adamantine, and silver because they are too engrained in fantasy whereas the others are relatively unknown.