The World of Avlis

What should happen when your character is disarmed by a critter? I assume it must be one of three things:

1 - the item gets unequipped and ends up in your inventory

2 - the item drops to the floor

3 - the item is grabbed by the critter and ends up in it's inventory

Are any of these correct? I ask, because I fought a magebane crab last night, and it disarmed me (of both of the shortswords I was dual wielding at the time), I checked my inventory so that I could re-equip them, but they weren't there, and they weren't on the floor either. So, I drew my shortbow, thinking I could work out what happened to the stuff after I'd dispatched the crab. It disarmed me of the bow too. Again, no sign of it in my inventory or on the floor. The creature then killed me. And, after getting out of my deathplane, I charged to where the creature was, hoping to be able to kill it and get my weapons back, only to find that it had despawned.
Was I not quick enough getting back to slay the crab?

When a character is disarmed, the weapon will always fall to the ground unless the creature that performed the disarm has the Improved Disarmed feat and is unarmed. In those cases, the weapon will go to that creature's inventory and will drop it upon its death.

Isn't it a bit unfair though, if the creature disappears like what happened to him?

Though I doubt there's a way to fix it... maybe there shouldn't be unnarmed creatures with improved disarm?

The crab has been tuned to not take weaponery.

Merago just ask any DM to get your weaponery back.

Rain&Clouds wrote:Isn't it a bit unfair though, if the creature disappears like what happened to him?

Yeah, it adds insult to injury.

But don't worry, we'll look into this.

Thanks for the help guys. I'll badger the next DM I see to get my stuff back.

Got my stuff back. Thanks again.

Are any of these correct? I ask, because I fought a magebane crab last night, and it disarmed me (of both of the shortswords I was dual wielding at the time), I checked my inventory so that I could re-equip them, but they weren't there, and they weren't on the floor either. So, I drew my shortbow, thinking I could work out what happened to the stuff after I'd dispatched the crab. It disarmed me of the bow too. Again, no sign of it in my inventory or on the floor. The creature then killed me. And, after getting out of my deathplane, I charged to where the creature was, hoping to be able to kill it and get my weapons back, only to find that it had despawned.
Was I not quick enough getting back to slay the crab?

LOL, I am glad you got your stuff back.

But that mental picture of this crab slapping you around and keeping your stuff is priceless.

I have had a NPC disarm before but my weapon went to the ground, I cant imagine how frustrating it would be if they had killed me and kept the stuff

Are any of these correct? I ask, because I fought a magebane crab last night, and it disarmed me (of both of the shortswords I was dual wielding at the time), I checked my inventory so that I could re-equip them, but they weren't there, and they weren't on the floor either. So, I drew my shortbow, thinking I could work out what happened to the stuff after I'd dispatched the crab. It disarmed me of the bow too. Again, no sign of it in my inventory or on the floor. The creature then killed me. And, after getting out of my deathplane, I charged to where the creature was, hoping to be able to kill it and get my weapons back, only to find that it had despawned.
Was I not quick enough getting back to slay the crab?

LOL, I am glad you got your stuff back.

But that mental picture of this crab slapping you around and keeping your stuff is priceless.

I have had a NPC disarm before but my weapon went to the ground, I cant imagine how frustrating it would be if they had killed me and kept the stuff