I've been talking with my DM about an upcoming campaign we're about to start, and he's decided he's going to let me have a spear that instead of doing the standard 1d6 (1d8), it will do 1d8 (1d10). I gave my character the weapon in his equipment and wanted to try and alter the stats, but it will only let me apply a bonus modifier rather than change the actual dice roll.
I thought about creating one from scratch instead, but it seems you can only make magical items, and you have to use a pre-existing weapon as a base, which still forces the same damage die. Does anyone know how I can get around this? Or does D&D Beyond not have that functionality?
In person all you do is use a pencil to write a number, but yeah, you can't make standard items on D&D Beyond. The only thing I can think of is making a Common Magic Weapon that uses the Longsword as a base, then add the Throwing Property and calling it a spear, because D&D Beyond doesn't even allow you to override the Damage Dice. It's a similar frustration to what I've had, because I tend to use several mundane weapons that aren't in the official content: Sabers, Scythes, Derringers, Gauntlets, Katars, Shuriken, Chains, etc.
I've been talking with my DM about an upcoming campaign we're about to start, and he's decided he's going to let me have a spear that instead of doing the standard 1d6 (1d8), it will do 1d8 (1d10). I gave my character the weapon in his equipment and wanted to try and alter the stats, but it will only let me apply a bonus modifier rather than change the actual dice roll.
I thought about creating one from scratch instead, but it seems you can only make magical items, and you have to use a pre-existing weapon as a base, which still forces the same damage die. Does anyone know how I can get around this? Or does D&D Beyond not have that functionality?
In person all you do is use a pencil to write a number, but yeah, you can't make standard items on D&D Beyond. The only thing I can think of is making a Common Magic Weapon that uses the Longsword as a base, then add the Throwing Property and calling it a spear, because D&D Beyond doesn't even allow you to override the Damage Dice. It's a similar frustration to what I've had, because I tend to use several mundane weapons that aren't in the official content: Sabers, Scythes, Derringers, Gauntlets, Katars, Shuriken, Chains, etc.
Giving it a +1 damage would result in the same average, if that's a satisfying solution for you (it wouldn't for me, but I thought I'd point it out).
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