So I know we will be encountering warerats and other creatures that can only be hurt by silver. My thoughts are if I had a blow gun loaded with silver dust could that affect the warerats if they inhale it. I'm looming for creative ways to deal with these guys and I'm thinking silver dust would affect them the same way kryptonite dust affects superman.
Also do anyone know of creatures that devour hair in dungeons and dragons. This is a side thing lol
Blowguns do not fiire dust they fire needles. That cost 1GP for 50. Ignoring bulk discounts that is 2sp for 10. 10 needles can be silvered for a cost of 100GP so you can have 10 silvered needles for 100gp 2sp. This will allow you to have 10 attacks from a blow gun that are effective against wererats. If you have time you may be able to recover half of the needles fired to use them again. If you are unrestricted in your needle searches you might get 20 attacks out of those 10 needles but in reality it is likely to be less, if thewre is a single combat you would certainly be limited to 10.
RAW this is the only way that it works, your DM might allow something else but it shouildn't be signifcantly better than the method within the rules. I might for example allow you to buy finely crafted silver dust which when blown into the face of a wererat or similar creature causes then to take the same damage as a silvered needle, as this would be single use only I might allow enough fror 12 attacks to be bought for 100GP.
Of course there are other ways of doing damage, damage other than piercing, bludgeoning and slashing works as normal. Also magical weapons are effective, so another approach would be to try and get someone to be able to cast magic weapon on your blow gun.
Dust in itself doesn't really do anything. There are no rules for dust doing damage to anything regardless of source or target so making an adjustment for silver dust would be a complete GM ruling. I would rule that it does nothing as it isn't the silver itself but wounds caused by it cannot be ignored.
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If someone tried that in my campaign I’d have the silver dust cover 1d3 wererats and I’d have 1d4 hits on each wererat work as if the weapon was silvered even if it isn’t.
It’s creative so I’d give some benefit from it even though I wouldn’t give the benefit that you’re looking for.
So I know we will be encountering warerats and other creatures that can only be hurt by silver. My thoughts are if I had a blow gun loaded with silver dust could that affect the warerats if they inhale it. I'm looming for creative ways to deal with these guys and I'm thinking silver dust would affect them the same way kryptonite dust affects superman.
Also do anyone know of creatures that devour hair in dungeons and dragons. This is a side thing lol
Blowguns do not fiire dust they fire needles. That cost 1GP for 50. Ignoring bulk discounts that is 2sp for 10. 10 needles can be silvered for a cost of 100GP so you can have 10 silvered needles for 100gp 2sp. This will allow you to have 10 attacks from a blow gun that are effective against wererats. If you have time you may be able to recover half of the needles fired to use them again. If you are unrestricted in your needle searches you might get 20 attacks out of those 10 needles but in reality it is likely to be less, if thewre is a single combat you would certainly be limited to 10.
RAW this is the only way that it works, your DM might allow something else but it shouildn't be signifcantly better than the method within the rules. I might for example allow you to buy finely crafted silver dust which when blown into the face of a wererat or similar creature causes then to take the same damage as a silvered needle, as this would be single use only I might allow enough fror 12 attacks to be bought for 100GP.
Of course there are other ways of doing damage, damage other than piercing, bludgeoning and slashing works as normal. Also magical weapons are effective, so another approach would be to try and get someone to be able to cast magic weapon on your blow gun.
Dust in itself doesn't really do anything. There are no rules for dust doing damage to anything regardless of source or target so making an adjustment for silver dust would be a complete GM ruling. I would rule that it does nothing as it isn't the silver itself but wounds caused by it cannot be ignored.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
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You're out of rules territory so this would be 100% a DM call as to whether this works or not.
If someone tried that in my campaign I’d have the silver dust cover 1d3 wererats and I’d have 1d4 hits on each wererat work as if the weapon was silvered even if it isn’t.
It’s creative so I’d give some benefit from it even though I wouldn’t give the benefit that you’re looking for.
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