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Painsplitting Bow

Added 2025-03-28 15:49:11 +0000 UTC

Weapon (any bow), very rare (requires attunement)

This silvery bow has a fine chain tied into its bowstring. You can use an action to speak the bow's command word and make a ranged attack with it using a nonmagical arrow. When you do, the fired arrow splits into three smaller ones, using the same attack roll for each one. The attacks are simultaneous and can be against the same or different targets, provided each other target is within 15 feet of the original one. Treat each split arrow as if it were a dart, except you only add your ability modifier to the damage once per affected target. Then roll a d10: each target hit by one or more split arrows also takes force damage equal to the number rolled.

If you're a rogue and hit multiple targets in this way that are eligible for your Sneak Attack damage, you can divide that Sneak Attack damage between the eligible targets however you like. When you do, any of your Sneak Attack's additional effects are ignored.

The split arrows disappear after hitting or missing a target, destroying the original arrow in the process. Any other effect or benefit that would apply to your weapon attacks, such as extra damage from a spell, only affects the original target, provided that the attack hits it. Such an effect can only trigger once, even if the target is hit by multiple split arrows.

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