enchantments - Graceful Weapon vs Quick-Draw

Plane · 01-15-2023, 04:48 PM

reviewing pg 63 of Magic I noticed some overlap between what these two do - apparently they're pretty useful for unbalanced weapons where attacking and parrying interfere with each other.

Quick-Draw has a basic counter "does not become unready after
attacking or parrying" but GW seems go beyond this - "does not become unready after attacking or parrying, even on a critical miss"

Since Quick-Draw makes no mention of 'even on a critical miss' would it be reasonable to assume that only Graceful Weapon keeps your weapon ready if critical misses unready it, and that critical misses will unready your weapon if all you have is Quick-Draw?

A 2nd advantage to Graceful Weapon also seems to be that it resists Turn Blade and Bladeturning, whereas Quick-Draw would not? That's important if you happen to have a cutting weapon, although not beneficial if you're using other weapon types.

Loyal Sword (not sure why it's not called Loyal Weapon since it doesn't actually mention swords-only) also seems to emulate quick-Draw, but only in the sense of quick-drawing a weapon on the next turn. LS does not mention preventing unreadying as the other two, so would it be correct to assume it wouldn't?

01-15-2023, 04:48 PM	#1
Plane Join Date: Aug 2018	enchantments - Graceful Weapon vs Quick-Draw reviewing pg 63 of Magic I noticed some overlap between what these two do - apparently they're pretty useful for unbalanced weapons where attacking and parrying interfere with each other. Quick-Draw has a basic counter "does not become unready after attacking or parrying" but GW seems go beyond this - "does not become unready after attacking or parrying, even on a critical miss" Since Quick-Draw makes no mention of 'even on a critical miss' would it be reasonable to assume that only Graceful Weapon keeps your weapon ready if critical misses unready it, and that critical misses will unready your weapon if all you have is Quick-Draw? A 2nd advantage to Graceful Weapon also seems to be that it resists Turn Blade and Bladeturning, whereas Quick-Draw would not? That's important if you happen to have a cutting weapon, although not beneficial if you're using other weapon types. Loyal Sword (not sure why it's not called Loyal Weapon since it doesn't actually mention swords-only) also seems to emulate quick-Draw, but only in the sense of quick-drawing a weapon on the next turn. LS does not mention preventing unreadying as the other two, so would it be correct to assume it wouldn't? __________________ what this forum is (17 March 2020 forum rules from Hackard)