Thread by @TheEdVerse

PastorGall @PastorGall
@TheEdVerse
any interesting #realmslore about darts, shurikens, any throwable types of weapons? I dont see much about them.

1)
Throwing knives (carried in concealment, but handy-sheathed up wrists and down boots and backs of necks, mounted on chokers) are very much a thing in the Realms, but TSR de-emphasized them in print to avoid real-life…
#Realmslore

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…tragedies (kid gamers getting hurt). Shuriken (in the Realms, “stars of death” [originally “deathstars,” but since Lucas later but so famously used the term, we can’t call them that any longer] are weapons in Semphar and…
#Realmslore

3)
…Ulgarth and points east of both places, and are slowly spreading via pirates and sailors to ports everywhere in Faerûn. Darts, including flaming darts and enchanted darts, are also Realms staples from the beginning, but the…
#Realmslore

4)
…magic ones, as they were activated by drawing blood upon striking a target, were omitted from the published Realms, as “blood magic” and so, verboten. Their effects ranged from explosions to dissolving into acid gouts to…
#Realmslore

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…delivering tiny ochre jellies and flesh-eating worms and venomous snakes to targets.
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