Damage vs. Opponent                                                     Range

Weapon Type	Cost	Approximate Weight in Pounds	Size S or M	Size L	Notes	Fire Rate	S	M	L	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Dart	5 sp	0.5	1-3	1-2	-	1-3	1 1/2	3	4 1/2	-7	-6	-5	-4	-3	-2	-1	0	+1	0	+1

SemajTheSilent wrote:
Gary...we're having a discussion at the Knights & Knaves board about this...

When you introduced darts into D&D, is this what you had in mind?

http://www.fectio.org.uk/groep/2003pos1.jpg

and

http://www.fectio.org.uk/groep/2003pos13.jpg

I decline to go to read other boards--to bloody much else to do.
I will say here that the darts considered are of large size, a foor ot more in length, veined and heary so as to have good penetration.

In some history books the "dart" referred to is a short, veined javelin, but those in the AD&D game are envisaged more like yard darts/

Cheers,
Gary

Grumble, grumble...

Okay, I went and had a look, and those missiles depicted in the two pics are indeed along the lines of the dart as envisaged for D&D weapon of that name 

Cheerio,
Gary
 

Cob37Jam wrote:

This made me happy for some reason, it's like wow, I remember those, then they outlawed them because people kept getting injured.

I loved Jarts!

That they could be banned speaks volumes about the loss of liberty in the USA. That said, "Jarts" were indeed likely lethal missiles--as are arrows and the like.

Cheers,
Gary
 

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuzenbach
The bottom line was, if you had the years to spare and/or a healthy supply of potions of longevity/elixirs of life, this was the "secret weapon" for you. Or for me, anyway.
The real tricky bit was figuring out how to store 9-score darts on your person!
 

As for the latter, any PC that had such a thing in my campaign would have been continually besieged with parties of NPC adventurers and monsters seeking to loot his store of potions.

In regards the darts, as the DM i'd have suggested that the PC with them was in "porcupine mode," darts feathers outwards <laughing>

Cheers,
Gary