"type, race, or group"

What does it mean by "group", like the Red Wizards, Acq Inc, or Vox Machina, or something else I'm not thinking of?

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If you don't see and understand the significance of an item like this, you should seek out new games to play in. The games you have been playing are not very good.

 Exactly. If your DM gives you an Arrow of Bugbear Slaying in a campaign focused on the undead, that DM needs to rethink his life choices. It's partly on the DM to give you the correct arrow that will be useful.

 Or to introduce some undead bugbears.

Imagine hyper specific arrows as "bullets with your name on it", Arrows of Slaying for a single individual.

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"type, race, or group"

What does it mean by "group", like the Red Wizards, Acq Inc, or Vox Machina, or something else I'm not thinking of?

 "Group" is probably just a catch-all for "other collection of entities with some through-line that the GM deems acceptable"

Yeah that's pretty much it. You could have an arrow of humanoid slaying for the race, or maybe you get an arrow of Knights of the Green Order slaying for the group. Or an arrow of Knights of the Black Rose slaying. It's the sub type of the race similar to a Dragon slaying vs a White Dragon slaying. 

As a DM, I would only use this type of magic item as a plot device.  

The players have only one arrow gifted to take down the main monster that is otherwise too strong for them.

Other types of magic ammunition exists… I mean Giants Boulders are ammunition right :P

Arrow Of Cow Slaying

My DM just gave me 20 arrows of humanoid slaying. No joke.

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Combine it with the oathbow and you have either the perfect combo for an Assassin (rogue) or and NPC Assassin/Hit Man. 6d10 + 3d6 + 1d8 + Sneak Attack + Dex seems great.

 

 THIS! An assassin would get an auto crit, meaning double all dice, right? This is BRUTAL. I love it. My the PC's in my game are gonna be pissed after they carelessly leave something of theirs behind and get NAILED.

   Poison it then use a buff like Flame Arrow.  Now have a ranger fire it from a Oathbow.  Watch the target get wrecked. 

I know you posted a year ago but I think that it refers to group as in how their are subraces to elves or how there are arctic owlbears and regular. So it would kind of be like this

Humanoid, Elf, High or Aberration, Owlbear, Arctic

But as for Dragon, White, ___ I don't know what that would be, perhaps young or adult?

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I know you posted a year ago but I think that it refers to group as in how their are subraces to elves or how there are arctic owlbears and regular. So it would kind of be like this

Humanoid, Elf, High or Aberration, Owlbear, Arctic

But as for Dragon, White, ___ I don't know what that would be, perhaps young or adult?

 White Dragon should do fine.

If you eant to be really spacific.

Dragon(Chromatic, White)

You can trigger this by shanking someone with it using tavern brawler.

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As far as I know there's no set recipe for magic items. Some DMs might make you gather rare ingredients, while some may simply allow you to buy ingredients.

 You could say the fletching is harpy feathers and the points are manticore spines, with mithral shafts.

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That's what I did. In my last session, my lvl9 rogue assassin character made a one-hit-kill on an adult brown dragon using his Oathbow (without nemesis part though) and an arrow of slaying. It was a stealth attack. 

Assuming the creature fails the save, which it probably wont, especially if it has legendary resistances, and that you hit with the arrow, which you might not. This is not a good item unless your dm just kindly gives you a few for free. A wand of magic missiles does as much damage as this thing and you cant miss and its reusable.

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arrow of quipper slaying

 Piranhas be real quiet since you said that, Dudhhr. Probably the most useless arrow ever created as sure, you can one-shot a Quipper, which has like 2 HP. However, this could work if you ran a Giant Quipper or Gargantuan Quipper Homebrew statblock like a frigging River Monsters episode. 

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Okay stay with me on this. Picture: A level 20. 11 fighter levels, Arcane archer subclass. That's 3 attacks per action, action surge for a second action That's now 6 attacks. 3 rogue levels, assassin subclass, so you can crit on a surprise attack and get 2d6 sneak attack. 6 wizard levels so you can cast haste. Arcane archer uses dex and intelligence. So both should be at least 20 for +5. Haste grants another additional action, now 7 total in one round. All 7 shots, with dragon slaying arrows, an oathbow, sneak attack, sharpshooter feat. So it would be 1d8,(Bow damage) + 3d6(oathbow effect), + 2d6(sneak attack) + 6d10(dragonslaying arrow) + 10(sharpshooter)+ 5(dex bonus) then you do this same process minus the sneak attack 6 MORE TIMES! and that's not counting if you crit.

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Okay stay with me on this. Picture: A level 20. 11 fighter levels, Arcane archer subclass. That's 3 attacks per action, action surge for a second action That's now 6 attacks. 3 rogue levels, assassin subclass, so you can crit on a surprise attack and get 2d6 sneak attack. 6 wizard levels so you can cast haste. Arcane archer uses dex and intelligence. So both should be at least 20 for +5. Haste grants another additional action, now 7 total in one round. All 7 shots, with dragon slaying arrows, an oathbow, sneak attack, sharpshooter feat. So it would be 1d8,(Bow damage) + 3d6(oathbow effect), + 2d6(sneak attack) + 6d10(dragonslaying arrow) + 10(sharpshooter)+ 5(dex bonus) then you do this same process minus the sneak attack 6 MORE TIMES! and that's not counting if you crit.

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Okay stay with me on this. Picture: A level 20. 11 fighter levels, Arcane archer subclass. That's 3 attacks per action, action surge for a second action That's now 6 attacks. 3 rogue levels, assassin subclass, so you can crit on a surprise attack and get 2d6 sneak attack. 6 wizard levels so you can cast haste. Arcane archer uses dex and intelligence. So both should be at least 20 for +5. Haste grants another additional action, now 7 total in one round. All 7 shots, with dragon slaying arrows, an oathbow, sneak attack, sharpshooter feat. So it would be 1d8,(Bow damage) + 3d6(oathbow effect), + 2d6(sneak attack) + 6d10(dragonslaying arrow) + 10(sharpshooter)+ 5(dex bonus) then you do this same process minus the sneak attack 6 MORE TIMES! and that's not counting if you crit.

 Uh, a bit overpowered my dude. What are you going to take down with all that damage? Mecha-frigging-Godzilla made by Kitnorsk?? Check it out, though. Still, that's a lotta damage and that is one way to piss your DM off definitely.