And if they had wanted a clear separation that ammunition isn’t a weapon all it would have taken is a break in the list and a two word line noting that the following were ammunition descriptions.įar too many gamers want to eat the cake and have it too. They do have their own entry among the weapon descriptions though.
True that ammunition doesn’t have its own additional separate listings on the chart, but that wouldn’t have served any purpose beyond taking up space and reducing clarity. It doesn’t say that the ammunition isn’t a weapon though, just that it doesn’t have it’s own statistics other than quantity price and bulk, which is abnormal for a weapon and thus worth making note of. Which, to me, reads that ammunition is not technically a weapon despite being on the chart. Because that and other relevant statistics vary by weapon, ammunition entries list only the name, quantity, Price, and Bulk.
The damage die is determined by the weapon, not the ammunition. CRB page 280, Ammunition wrote: Some entries in the ranged weapons tables are followed by an entry indicating the type of ammunition that weapon launches.