Question about the “Relic”.
So it’s a melee weapon, if you give it the “thrown” upgrade, it covers a number of small, thrown weapons. Eg. Throwing knives or something.
If you are making it a single weapon, could that weapon still be thrown? Say a hammer or something? So you could use it as a melee weapon or a thrown weapon?
Also, if it was to be used both ways, could you then give it the ricochet upgrade for getting it to return to you?
(I may have been watching Thor last night…)
Cheers everyone.
I would say that you can throw a weapon without the “Thrown” tag, but it’s not as suited to throwing as a weapon with the tag.
Thrown applies to either a handful of small weapons (daggers, ninja stars, stun-caltrops, etc) or one bigger one (hunting spear, plasma discus, and yes, storm hammer). So yes, absolutely, you can make Thor’s Hammer.
Also, as Rob said, you can technically throw anything. You can huck a sword at someone or throw a chain to trip someone up. Weapons with the Thrown tag are just really really good at being thrown, they’re designed for it.
Just as a thought exercise:
Mjolnir
Relic – Class 3 Melee Weapon
> Shock
> Impact
> Thrown
> Destructive
Way ahead of you Sean Gomes, if you give the character the Primal origin, and take “stronger” as your origin skill, then melee attacks become destructive, impactful, and penetrating.
Which means the relic itself can be:
Mjolnir – Class 3 Melee Weapon
> Summoning (to call it to you from anywhere)
> Shock (because God of Thunder)
> Thrown (because obviously)
So it’s more powerful if the character (Thor) is using it (in melee) because of his origin.
Only the worthy, after all…
Cheers for the clarification as always 😊
Don’t forget that all Melee Weapons have a free upgrade that dictates the weapon’s “form”
Personally I’d still give it “Impact” even though the character wielding it is Stronger, simply because that’s what hammers do.
Otherwise, if you wanted to maximize it, you could have Mjolnir be:
> Thrown
> Shock
> Summoned
> Disruptive (because it hurts supernatural creatures and breaks magic stuff)