Multiple javelins

[CCamfield]

How does one - can one? - carry around multiple javelins at the same time, and throw them one after the other?

I don't think that "javelin quivers" existed, did they? Or, regardless of their historicity, do they exist in D&D in some form? Even so, getting a javelin out would seem to require a move-equivalent action, the same as drawing any other new weapon. A "quiver" would just allow you to carry several javelins without taking up any hands.

Otherwise, the only thing I can think to do would be to stick the extras in the ground somewhere, and pull them out and throw them from that fixed position. Or allow one or two to be carried in the off hand.

Thoughts?

 

[ConcreteBuddha]

Quick Draw

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

I'm sure SHARK could tell you more, but from what I've been able to dig up, it looks like Roman soldiers generally only carried two javelins. I don't really see any way that carrying more would be very practical.

Of course, my character in Diablo 2 can carry 100 of them

 

[LokiDR]

If you can prepare, stab several into the ground in front of you. Now you shouldn't have to take a move equivelant to draw them, because they are almost in your hand already.

 

[Darklone]

Romans had quivers for them.

 

[ConcreteBuddha]

Seriously, though. Quickdraw allows a character to draw a weapon as a free action. It doesn't matter if the greatsword is strapped to your back, the dagger is in your boot, or the shiruken are up you sleeve.

I don't see how having multiple javelins in a quiver on your back is any less feasible than drawing five or more daggers. (Which DnD allows, even though it would be rather difficult for a real person to draw five daggers from five different sheaths with the same hand and throw them all with the same hand in the span of six seconds.)

Nerfing a javelin even further would limit the weapon to near uselessness.

 

[Fenes 2]

I am not an expert, but from a strictly game balance point of view, letting a PC draw javelins from a quiver like an archer draws arrows - i.e. without quickdraw or requiring a move-equivalent action - seems right to me. Heck, many archers, iirc, had their arrows stuck in the ground in front of them, so that method should work well for javelins too.

 

[CCamfield]

Quick Draw

Yeah, that was a solution I was thinking of too, but I was still trying to wrap my head around the realities of the situation.

Before posting I tried doing a search on javelin quivers and I didn't really come up with anything solid (even Roman). There was some discussion by medieval(?) recreators about holding one or two against a shield, I think.

 

[hong]

Multiple Javelins:

I'm just waiting for d20 Modern to come out, and I can have multiple LAWs.


Hong "Ccamfield knows what I mean" Ooi

 

[CCamfield]

LOL! That must be the cue for a crank-powered gnomish automatic javelin launcher.