01-14-2004, 11:41 PM | #1 |
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What are keen weapons and how do you know which weapons are keen for which races?
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01-15-2004, 12:03 AM | #2 |
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Weapons are keen for all races. Basically, they improve the chances of a critical hit. I'm not sure of the specifics, but I think that a keen weapon that might initially only be a crit threat on a roll of 20 might be improved to a 19 and 20.
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01-15-2004, 07:03 AM | #3 |
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Yes, a keen weapon has twice the chance of scoring a critical hit than that of a non-keen weapon.
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01-15-2004, 09:00 AM | #4 |
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for example a rapier has a critical threat range of 18-20 if that weapon is also keen the threat range becomes 15-20 (improved critical would change it to 12-20) and if you have a weapons master (Prestige class from HotU) at high enough level the threat range will drop even more.
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01-15-2004, 02:50 PM | #6 |
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the only problem with dual wielding rapiers and scimitars is that they don't count as light weapons for the purposes of two-weapon fighting and ambidexterity ie you still have serious penalties since they're "non-light" weapons.
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01-15-2004, 03:35 PM | #7 |
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If you can get your hands on a nice set of Kukri, there are some out there that are "Keen", they are very nasty indeed when dual wielded, and you keep the small weopons status.
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