Item: Throwing Knife
This light knife is optimally balanced to be thrown accurately at a greater distance than a common dagger. While this comes at the cost of a significant cutting edge, the difference is worth it for throwing specialists.
Trait Effects
Agile: The multiple attack penalty you take with this weapon on the second attack on your turn is –4 instead of –5, and –8 instead of –10 on the third and subsequent attacks in the turn.
Finesse: You can use your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier on attack rolls using this melee weapon. You still calculate damage using Strength.
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.
Knife: 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.
Related Items
| Name | Level | Rarity | Price | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Throwing Knife (Extinction Curse) | - | Uncommon | 3 sp | 1d4 |
| Returning Starknife | 8 | Uncommon | 430 gp | 1d4 |
| Corset Knife | - | Common | 3 sp | 1d4 |
| Dagger | - | Common | 2 sp | 1d4 |
| Sickle | - | Common | 2 sp | 1d4 |
| Spectral Dagger | - | Unique | - | 1d4 |
| Ghast Stiletto | 3 | Common | 60 gp | 1d4 |
| Ghoul Stiletto | 3 | Common | 60 gp | 1d4 |
| Little Love | 3 | Rare | 60 gp | 1d4 |
| Wordreaper | 3 | Uncommon | 55 gp | 1d4 |
| Fiend's Hunger | 4 | Unique | 100 gp | 1d4 |
| Dagger of Eternal Sleep | 5 | Uncommon | 25 gp | 1d4 |
| Dog-Bone Knife | 5 | Uncommon | 150 gp | 1d4 |
| Heartripper Blade | 5 | Rare | 160 gp | 1d4 |
| Poisonous Dagger | 5 | Common | 150 gp | 1d4 |
| Serpent Dagger | 5 | Common | 150 gp | 1d4 |
| Lady's Knife | 6 | Uncommon | 200 gp | 1d4 |
| Void Sickle | 6 | Common | 235 gp | 1d4 |
| Bellicose Dagger | 7 | Rare | - | 1d4 |
| Undead Scourge | 7 | Uncommon | 350 gp | 1d4 |