Books and Tomes of Knowledge: Weaponized

Maybe you use it till say its "item strength" runs out THEN you through it and it exploades?

 

Well man I don't know who gets the idea of "hey let's make a melee wepon that self destructs after a bit"
I should probably fix the OP.

 

Why Murky Dragon of course (That'd be me!)

 

Ah I see!
(note to self, keep explosive books away from BrutorDragon.)

 

Yeah but he seems more dangerous with them.

 

*Murky

 

I like it.

Sure?

 

Yeaaa I'll get a name-change-back eventually. Just calls me Murky ok?
Erhem...there should be a book that summons mini spirit-dragons...
That attack and what not...

 

See I'd like to have included stuff like this, but that's heavily pushing the "no magic in Starbound" rule.
And will do.

 

Hmm..."Holo-Dragons"...that can hit you...

 

Smoooooth.
There are definite boundaries with this weapon yes, but then again there are boundaries with everything. <-- Flawless argument.

 

In Starbound!? HA!

 

But there's no maaaAAAAAGGGGGIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCC-
jk. This suggestion is baus.

 

Thanks man.
This made me laugh hahahah.

 

You're welcome and it made me laugh too.

 

Book Of Doom and 1000000000000000000000/10

 

It's possible, but besides just added physical damage and knockback it seems difficult to think of it's specialties.

 

Oh that Good

 

No.

 

To make this a ranged weapon, some books could have pages that can conduct a mild electrical charge, causing them to automatically fold into a paper airplane as soon as they are torn out and thrown. Maybe the book is a sort of printer that uses energy to continuously make more razor-edged pages to use as ammo.

One of the books used this way could have glow-in-the-dark pages. Or the paper could be designed to ignite shortly after being removed, like pulling the pin from a grenade. They could even be dosed with radiation, laced with poison, or pretty much any other sort of weapon mod that you could find on a gun.

Another option could be that when you open the book, all the pages inside imediately burst out and dole out a thousand paper cuts for sudden damage in a short range area, at the cost of all your energy. More energy means more paper cuts. You could even use this to shower confetti during a parade, or probably dozens of other non-combat uses as well.

Of course, I also like the idea of just bonking people over the head with improvised weapons like books, lamps, chairs, etc...

Read of Die?