Item: Heat Seeking Harpoon
This +1 striking Harpoon has a vicious iron tip that pulls it unerringly toward its target. As long as the target is warm-blooded, has the fire trait, or otherwise has an unusual heat signature, attacks with the heat-seeking harpoon don't take the normal penalties and restrictions for being used in water or underwater. They also ignore any concealment granted by smoke, darkness, or other visual barriers.
Trait Effects
Tethered: This weapon is attached to a length of rope or chain that allows you to retrieve it after it has left your hand. If you have a free hand (including if you've just thrown a two-handed tethered weapon and have a hand holding nothing but the weapon's tether), you can use an Interact action to pull the weapon back into your grasp after you have thrown it as a ranged attack or after it has been disarmed (unless it's being held by another creature).
Thrown: You can throw this weapon as a ranged attack; it is a ranged weapon when thrown. You add your Strength modifier to damage as you would for a melee weapon. When this trait appears on a melee weapon, it also includes the range increment. Ranged weapons with this trait use the range increment in the weapon’s Range entry.
Critical Specialisation Effects
Certain effects can grant you benefits when you make a Strike with certain weapons and get a critical success. This is called a critical specialisation effect. The exact effect depends on which weapon group your weapon belongs to, as listed below. You can always decide not to add the critical specialisation effect of your weapon.
Dart: The target takes 1d6 persistent bleed damage. You gain an item bonus to this bleed damage equal to the weapon's item bonus to attack rolls.
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| Name | Level | Rarity | Price | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harpoon | - | Common | 1 gp | 1d8 |
| Chakri | - | Uncommon | 2 sp | 1d6 |
| Rope Dart | - | Uncommon | 1 gp | 1d4 |
| Shuriken | - | Uncommon | 1 cp | 1d4 |
| War Javelin | - | Uncommon | 1 gp | 1d6 |
| Dart Umbrella | - | Uncommon | 1 gp | 1- |
| Wrist Launcher | - | Uncommon | 3 gp | 1d4 |
| Windlass Bola | 6 | Uncommon | 200 gp | 1d6 |
| Magnetic Bola | 3 | Uncommon | 60 gp | 1d6 |
| Combat Grapnel | 1 | Uncommon | 9 sp | 1d6 |
| Bola | - | Common | 5 sp | 1d6 |
| Boomerang | - | Uncommon | 2 sp | 1d6 |
| Chakram | - | Common | 5 sp | 1d8 |
| Combat Fishing Pole | - | Uncommon | 4 sp | 1d8 |
| Combat Lure | - | Uncommon | 2 gp | 1d6 |
| Shattered Plan | 11 | Uncommon | 1400 gp | 1d6 |
| Tidal Fishhook | 12 | Rare | 1700 gp | 1d6 |
| Alicorn Lance | 5 | Uncommon | 150 gp | 1d8 |
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| Chainbreaker | 5 | Uncommon | 150 gp | 1d6 |