averyterrible:

kontextmaschine:

feathershy:

kontextmaschine:

It’s funny how original D&D came from a pre-electronic gaming age when people would answer “name a weapon someone might throw” with “a dart?”

Maybe I am misunderstanding what you mean by this post, but war darts were a real thing

Yes, but if you asked someone today to name a throwing weapon would they pick them? They’d say axes or knives or maybe shurikens or kunai.

your average schmuck maybe but not Gary “Glaive-Guisarme” Gygax

Mechanically, I liked the Avernum situation where your ranged weapon could be a (separate and separately bonusable) bow and arrows, finite javelins, or an infinite (ammo off the ground) sling