Is this item worded in an understandable manner?

https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/2391454-cyclones

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Is this item worded in an understandable manner?

https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/2391454-cyclones

 

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These come as a pair of small rounded shield-like weapons. The edges are sharpened and can be used to make slashing attacks with each hand. It is possible to use just one if you need a hand free for something else. You cannot use both and a shield at the same time. The cyclones may also be thrown and will return to the user's hand whether the attack hits or misses.

 While wielding both, you can use them to block blows, giving you +1 to your Armor Class. 

When wielding Cyclones if you take bludgeoning, slashing, piercing, thunder or force damage, you can absorb some of the damage into the cyclones causing them to crackle with energy. Half of the damage from a blow can be absorbed giving you an equal amount of Temporary Hit Points. e.g. If you take 12 points of damage, you can gain up to 6 THP.

You can choose to expend these THP to increase your melee damage. Each THP used in this way gives a force damage bonus on one attack. Using the example above, expending the THPs one melee attack can inflict an extra 6 points of force damage.

You have a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.

Proficiency with a handaxe allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it.

Yeah, I want to get it right BEFORE publish.

Lemme cogitate on it a bit, and I’ll get back to you.

Looks like a neat concept if not a little bit on the strong side but here are few things:
1- What's the damage die on this weapon? is it a d4 like hand axes since if you are proficient with hand axes you can use Cyclones...?

2-  i think the wording needs to be bit clearer on some parts like: If the weapon requires attunement or not (unless you already written that in the item post). also i think it's best to keep them as the either only weapon can be used like you can only use it if there is a pair of them or, remove the fact that it's a pair of weapons for clearer way of using it to avoid confusion imo.

3- i suggest moving the + to damage and to hit as well as the bonus to ac to the beginning in one paragraph like most items tend to be.

4- i suggest you make the absorption as a reaction to make it a little bit more balanced because with the current wording it feels like you can technically absorb half damage infinitely in one round. You can changing the clarification of how the absorption to works, to something a long the lines of: "Absorb half of the damage received, then gain temporary hit points equal to the damage absorbed after the damage is taken"  

5- you might want to put a limit on how much damage can be released at a time (if not cap it at a certain limit as well as the temporary hit points) by this weapon as it can deal too much damage when facing strong opponents.

6- lastly, you can publish an item despite it's percentage of completion but just make sure you specify what version is the item at upon creation then slowly update it until you are satisfied.

1 - the damage is the same as a hand axe - 1d6, slashing, throwing, light. 

2 - wasn't sure about attunement yet. I was imagining in my head dual mini shields like Captain America in Infinity War, but round. I don't want PCs questing to find a pair. They go together like Katana and Wakizashi, flip flops and the beach,  Batman and Robin. Want them to be dual wield out of the box, otherwise they're just small shields.

3 - No problem.

4- I saw it as similar but different to Resistance in power.

5 - I don't mind the damage output. If you take 50 damage, you still took 50 damage. So you have to consider if you want to hang on to 25 THP to reduce another hit or hit back. Might cap the THP

6 - I HATE seeing something I publish and find errors or bad phrasing. So this time I want to get it right before hitting that button.

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These come as a pair of small rounded shield-like weapons.... It is possible to use just one if you need a hand free for something else.

 Okay, that is the part I am struggling to word properly. If it was always a pair, it could be handled as a single two-handed weapon. But that won’t do here. And versatile would change the damage, so that’s no good either. On this case, I think making the pair with the intention that a PC would dual wield is better. Does that work?

I didn't think of making it versatile, that's a good idea for other items but not quite for this. Like double fisted daggers - nice imagery.

I didn't want to limit players by forcing them to use both if they need to cast spells or something.

Yes, dual wield if you use both, +AC if you use both.

Okay, here is what I came up with for you. I was going to ask you about changing the conversion of damage to THP to require a Reaction. Then I noticed that someone else had mentioned it and you agreed so I went with it. I also altered it slightly to allow the user to deal that force damage on both melee and ranged attacks, if you don’t like it just change “an attack” to “a melee attack” and that will be addressed.

The only thing I wasn’t sure of is if they each grant a +1 AC bonus, and that becomes a +3 total when paired, or if they individually grant no AC bonus and only grant a +1 when paired. I wrote it as if they work the second way. If it’s supposed to be the first way that should be mentioned in the same paragraph with the +2 Magic bonus and the returning property.

This one had some interesting challenges to work out. I enjoyed the process, I hope you like the results.

Each of these small, round, disk-like weapons is masterfully crafted, perfectly balanced, and razor sharp along their curved edge making each a deadly weapon, both in melee and at range. However, they were designed as a pair, and when wielded as such become equally useful in defense, allowing their wielder to block incoming blows. A pair of Cyclones in skilled hands is all any true warrior needs in combat. Furthermore, while wielding one or more Cyclones you can turn certain forms of damage you take into an asset, allowing you to use your enemies' own power against them in battle.

You have a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with these magic weapons. A Cyclone returns to your hand immediately after being used to make a ranged attack.

While wielding a pair of Cyclones, one in each hand, you gain an additional +1 bonus to your Armor Class.

In addition, whenever you take bludgeoning, piercing, slashing, thunder or force damage from a single source that you can see, you can spend a reaction to channel a portion of that damage into any Cyclones you are wielding, enshrouding them with crackling energy. After the damage has been resolved you gain a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to half the total damage you received of each relevant damage type.* 
   While you have these temporary hit points, whenever you hit with an attack using a Cyclone you are wielding, you can spend any number of these temporary hit points, and the attack deals a number of additional force damage to the target equal to the number of Temporary Hit Points expended.

*For example, if a single source deals you 12 points of damage, 8 piercing and 4 thunder, you could use this feature to gain up to 6 temporary hit points. If that source had instead dealt you 8 points of piercing damage and 4 points of fire damage, you would instead only gain up to 4 temporary hit points from this feature.

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Okay, here is what I came up with for you. I was going to ask you about changing the conversion of damage to THP to require a Reaction. Then I noticed that someone else had mentioned it and you agreed so I went with it. I also altered it slightly to allow the user to deal that force damage on both melee and ranged attacks, if you don’t like it just change “an attack” to “a melee attack” and that will be addressed.

The only thing I wasn’t sure if I if they each grant a +1 AC bonus, and that becomes a +3 total when paired, or if they individually grant no AC bonus and only grant a +1 when paired. I wrote it as if they work the second way. If it’s supposed to be the first way that should be mentioned in the same paragraph with the +2 Magic bonus and the returning property.

This one had some interesting challenges to work out. I enjoyed the process, I hope you like the results.

Each of these small, round, disk-like weapons is masterfully crafted, perfectly balanced, and razor sharp along the curved edge making each a deadly weapon, both in melee and at range. However, they were designed as pair, and when wielded as such they become equally useful in defense, allowing their wielder to block incoming blows. A pair of these Cyclones in skilled hands is all any true warrior needs in combat. Furthermore, while wielding one or more Cyclones you can turn certain forms of damage you take into an asset to use your enemies' own power against them in battle.

You have a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with these magic weapons. A Cyclone returns to your hand immediately after being used to make a ranged attack.

While wielding a pair of these weapons, one in each hand, you gain an additional +1 bonus to your Armor Class.

In addition, whenever you take bludgeoning, piercing, slashing, thunder or force damage from a single source you can see, you can spend a reaction to channel a portion of that damage into any Cyclones you are wielding, enshrouding them with crackling energy. After the damage has been resolved you gain a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to half the total damage you received of each relevant damage type.* 
   While you have these temporary hit points, whenever you hit with an attack using a Cyclone you are wielding, you can spend any number of these temporary hit points, and the attack deals that number of additional force damage to the target.

*For example, if a single source deals you 12 points of damage, 8 piercing and 4 thunder, you could use this feature to gain up to 6 temporary hit points. If that source had instead dealt you 8 points of piercing damage and 4 points of fire damage, you would instead only gain up to 4 temporary hit points from this feature.

 This look neat! Good job.

Thanks. I updated it a little for clarity since then. I hope Wysperra likes it too.

I should do this feedback thing more often.

Thanks guys!

As usual, happy to help.