Throwing Axe +2

Throwing Axe +2
Item
Type	Throwing axe
Cursed	❌
Cursed	❌
Magical	✅
Magical	✅
Cold iron	❌
Cold iron	❌
Silver	❌
Silver	❌
Enchanted	2b
Lore	65
Weight	3 lb
Acquisition
Area	Candlekeep Caves
Obtained from	Prat
Combat
Combat type	Ranged and Melee
Range	20 (thrown) 1 (melee)
THAC0	-2 bonus
THAC0 modified by	Dexterity (thrown) Strength (melee)
Damage	Thrown: 1d6 +3 (missile) Melee: 1d6 +3 (slashing)
Physical damage modified by strength in	Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition (2012) Content from the Enhanced Edition campaign Baldur's Gate Siege of Dragonspear (2016) Content from the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition campaign Siege of Dragonspear The Black Pits II: Gladiators of Thay (2013) Content from the Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition campaign The Black Pits II: Gladiators of Thay ———— Melee only Baldur's Gate (1998) Content from the original Baldur's Gate main campaign
Speed factor	2
Proficiency	Axe
Wielding	One-handed
Special
Combat abilities	- Returns to the wielder's hand when thrown
Requirements
Strength	4
Not usable by	Cleric Mage Monk Thief Cleric / Ranger Fighter / Druid Fighter / Cleric Fighter / Mage / Cleric Beast Master Druid Sorcerer
Other
Item value	2,500
Technical information
Item code	AX1H05
Projectile	Original games: Axe heavy Enhanced Editions: 1axe05 (thrown) Axe heavy (melee)

The Throwing Axe +2 is a magical axe which can be used in melee combat and as a throwing weapon. The axe is enchanted in the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and in Baldur's Gate II, but appears in the latter only during the Enhanced Edition campaign The Black Pits II: Gladiators of Thay. In the original Baldur's Gate, it still has the +2 bonuses, but carries no enchantment. The axe will return to the thrower, like a boomerang, making it the only ranged weapon in the original campaign that requires no ammunition.

“	This throwing axe has not only been finely balanced for use as a missile weapon but has also been the subject of significant magical enhancement. As a result, it is both more damaging and more accurate than any non-magical weapon of a similar style.	”
— Throwing Axe +2

Locations

Baldur's Gate

• Used^{(can't be stolen)} by Prat in the Candlekeep Caves^(AR5506)

Siege of Dragonspear

• Used^{(can't be stolen)} by Commander Dreon and General Stonehand

Gladiators of Thay

• Equipped⁽⁹⁵⁾ by Voghiln the Vast

Notes

• Another Throwing Axe +2, AX1H06.itm, is present in the game code already since the original Baldur's Gate, but remains unused in almost all games of the Baldur's Gate series and is only made available as Rhyte's Last Arrow in Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear. When thrown, this version of the axe also deals 10 Electricity damage that does not bypass Magic resistance
• One instance of AX1H05.itm can be found in Riggilo's inventory, but isn't enabled as usable or droppable item.
• Although the below mentioned enchantment bug is fixed in Baldur's Gate II, the Throwing Axe +2 isn't available via normal means in the second part of the series and only appears there in the Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition campaign The Black Pits II: Gladiators of Thay as equipment of Voghiln the Vast.

Bugs

• Baldur's Gate (1998)
  This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate campaign. In the original Baldur's Gate, the Throwing Axe +2 is a magical, but not enchanted weapon; this is fixed in the Enhanced Edition and in Baldur's Gate II.