Throwing Knife

Base game

Throwing Knife Combat Utility

This knife is specially designed and weighted that it can be thrown effectively.

Use: Throw the knife dealing 24-51 mechanical damage if it hits the target. This damage incurs 130% of target's mechanical resistance and threshold, but the damage that passes armor is increased by 75% against living targets. Damage and precision scale with the throwing skill. When throwing a knife while in melee range of an enemy, you suffer 25% hit chance penalty. (AP: 18)

Incurs 125% of mechanical damage resistance and threshold.

Weight: 0.05

Value: 15 2 SGS Credits 1 Stygian Coin 1 United Stations Dollar 1 Zlatortiya

Burrower Poison Throwing Knife Combat Utility

This knife is specially designed and weighted that it can be thrown effectively. It has been coated with burrower poison.

Use: Throw the knife dealing 24-51 mechanical damage if it hits the target. This damage incurs 130% of target's mechanical resistance and threshold, but the damage that passes armor is increased by 75% against living targets. Damage and precision scale with the throwing skill. When throwing a knife while in melee range of an enemy, you suffer 25% hit chance penalty. If target takes damage it is also afflicted with burrower poison that deals 7 damage each turn for up to 5 turns. Stacks 5 times. (AP: 18)

Incurs 125% of mechanical damage resistance and threshold.

Weight: 0.05

Value: 25 3 SGS Credits 1 Stygian Coin 1 United Stations Dollar 2 Zlatortiya

Cave Ear Poison Throwing Knife Combat Utility

This knife is specially designed and weighted that it can be thrown effectively. It has been coated with cave ear poison.

Use: Throw the knife dealing 24-51 mechanical damage if it hits the target. This damage incurs 130% of target's mechanical resistance and threshold, but the damage that passes armor is increased by 75% against living targets. Damage and precision scale with the throwing skill. When throwing a knife while in melee range of an enemy, you suffer 25% hit chance penalty. If target takes damage it is also afflicted with cave ear poison that increases all biological damage taken by 50% and reduces perception by 5. Lasts up to 5 turns. (AP: 18)

Incurs 125% of mechanical damage resistance and threshold.

Weight: 0.05

Value: 30 3 SGS Credits 1 Stygian Coin 1 United Stations Dollar 2 Zlatortiya

Crawler Poison Throwing Knife Combat Utility

This knife is specially designed and weighted that it can be thrown effectively. It has been coated with crawler poison.

Use: Throw the knife dealing 24-51 mechanical damage if it hits the target. This damage incurs 130% of target's mechanical resistance and threshold, but the damage that passes armor is increased by 75% against living targets. Damage and precision scale with the throwing skill. When throwing a knife while in melee range of an enemy, you suffer 25% hit chance penalty. If target takes damage it is also afflicted with crawler poison that deals 10 damage each turn for 2 turns. If the poison is not removed before it expires it will stun the victim for 2 turns. (AP: 18)

Incurs 125% of mechanical damage resistance and threshold.

Weight: 0.05

Value: 45 5 SGS Credits 2 Stygian Coin 1 United Stations Dollar 3 Zlatortiya

Black Dragon Poison Throwing Knife Combat Utility

This knife is specially designed and weighted that it can be thrown effectively. It has been coated with black dragon poison.

Use: Throw the knife dealing 24-51 mechanical damage if it hits the target. This damage incurs 130% of target's mechanical resistance and threshold, but the damage that passes armor is increased by 75% against living targets. Damage and precision scale with the throwing skill. When throwing a knife while in melee range of an enemy, you suffer 25% hit chance penalty. If target takes damage it is also afflicted with black dragon poison which causes psionic inhibition, preventing the victim from invoking psi abilities or regenerating psi points. Lasts 1 turn. (AP: 18)

Incurs 125% of mechanical damage resistance and threshold.

Weight: 0.05

Value: 60 6 SGS Credits 2 Stygian Coin 2 United Stations Dollar 4 Zlatortiya

Spirit Poison Throwing Knife Combat Utility

This knife is specially designed and weighted that it can be thrown effectively. It has been coated with spirit poison.

Use: Throw the knife dealing 24-51 mechanical damage if it hits the target. This damage incurs 130% of target's mechanical resistance and threshold, but the damage that passes armor is increased by 75% against living targets. Damage and precision scale with the throwing skill. When throwing a knife while in melee range of an enemy, you suffer 25% hit chance penalty. If target takes damage it is also afflicted with spirit poison that deals 15 damage per turn each turn and reduces resolve by 65%. If the poison is not removed before it expires it will summon a psionic doppelganger of the victim if it's human. (AP: 18)

Incurs 125% of mechanical damage resistance and threshold.

Weight: 0.05

Value: 86 9 SGS Credits 3 Stygian Coin 2 United Stations Dollar 6 Zlatortiya

Expedition

Blinding Poison Throwing Knife Combat Utility

This knife is specially designed and weighted that it can be thrown effectively. It has been coated with blinding poison.

Use: Throw the knife dealing 24-51 mechanical damage if it hits the target. This damage incurs 130% of target's mechanical resistance and threshold, but the damage that passes armor is increased by 75% against living targets. Damage and precision scale with the throwing skill. When throwing a knife while in melee range of an enemy, you suffer 25% hit chance penalty. If target takes damage it is also afflicted with blinding poison that deals 14 damage each turn for up to 3 turns and reduces perception by 1. Stacks 8 times. (AP: 18)

Incurs 125% of mechanical damage resistance and threshold.

Weight: 0.05

Value: 40 4 SGS Credits 2 Stygian Coin 1 United Stations Dollar 3 Zlatortiya

Leper Poison Throwing Knife Combat Utility

This knife is specially designed and weighted that it can be thrown effectively. It has been coated with leper poison.

Use: Throw the knife dealing 24-51 mechanical damage if it hits the target. This damage incurs 130% of target's mechanical resistance and threshold, but the damage that passes armor is increased by 75% against living targets. Damage and precision scale with the throwing skill. When throwing a knife while in melee range of an enemy, you suffer 25% hit chance penalty. If target takes damage it is also afflicted with leper poison that deals 16 damage each turn for up to 3 turns and increases all mechanical damage taken by 10%. Stacks 6 times. (AP: 18)

Incurs 125% of mechanical damage resistance and threshold.

Weight: 0.05

Value: 45 5 SGS Credits 2 Stygian Coin 1 United Stations Dollar 3 Zlatortiya

Heartbreak Poison Throwing Knife Combat Utility

This knife is specially designed and weighted that it can be thrown effectively. It has been coated with heartbreak poison.

Use: Throw the knife dealing 24-51 mechanical damage if it hits the target. This damage incurs 130% of target's mechanical resistance and threshold, but the damage that passes armor is increased by 75% against living targets. Damage and precision scale with the throwing skill. When throwing a knife while in melee range of an enemy, you suffer 25% hit chance penalty. If target takes damage it is also afflicted with heartbreak poison that deals 3 damage each turn for up to 5 turns. Stacks 5 times. If this poison is allowed the expire naturally it will then deal a great amount of damage which increases ever more rapidly with each stack. (AP: 18)

Incurs 125% of mechanical damage resistance and threshold.

Weight: 0.05

Value: 55 6 SGS Credits 2 Stygian Coin 2 United Stations Dollar 4 Zlatortiya

A Throwing Knife is a cheap throwing weapon. Unlike most throwing utilities, the damage of throwing knives scales with thrower's Throwing skill. Their damage starts at 8-9 with zero throwing skill, increases to 28-49 at 135 skill, 38-69 at 203 skill.

Throwing knives are light weapons and thus benefit from Dexterity AP cost reduction.

Crafting

Throwing knives can be crafted with Blueprint: Throwing Knives.

Sets of throwing knives can be crafted from any metal plates and optionally poisoned similarly to Caltrops and Bear Traps.

Variants

• Throwing Knife
• Cave Ear Poison Throwing Knife
• Crawler Poison Throwing Knife
• Burrower Poison Throwing Knife
• Black Dragon Poison Throwing Knife
• Spirit Poison Throwing Knife
• Blinding Poison Throwing Knife ^E
• Leper Poison Throwing Knife ^E
• Heartbreak Poison Throwing Knife ^E

History

• 0.2.0.0: Throwing knives upper damage range reduced
• 0.1.14.0: New throwing knife feats, throwing knives reclassified as light weapons, base AP cost increased from 15 to 18.
• 0.1.12.0: Throwing knives introduced