When you use but a single runestone, it affects YOU, not just one weapon. E.g., if you used a
Sun Runestone
(and no other runestones), it would affect ALL your successful melee hits, no matter which melee weapon you attacked with. Whereas if you used a 2nd runestone, you're required to use a
Runestone Fitting Base
and that runestone ONLY affects attacks made using the one weapon to which it is attached. If you used a 3rd runestone with a 2nd RFB, that runestone would only affect the one weapon to which it was attached.
Expanding on the previous example, let's say you use a Sun Runestone (not in an RFB), a
Decay Runestone
attached to your Sword of Swording, and a
Fire Runestone
attached to your Bow of Bowing. ALL melee attacks you make, regardless of what melee weapon you're using, deal +1 Sacred damage from the Sun Runestone. When you attack with your Sword of Swording, you'll deal +1 Sacred damage from the Sun and +1 Acid damage from the Decay. When you attack with your Bow of Bowing, you'll deal +1 Fire damage because a bow is not a melee weapon and neither the Sun nor Decay stones can affect it.
If you were to attack with your Club of Partying, you'd deal +1 Sacred damage from the Sun because that rune affects all your melee attacks, but you would not get the +1 Acid damage from the Decay rune because the Decay rune ONLY affects your Sword of Swording.
If you were to attack with your Crossbow of Optometry, you would not get any extra rune damage because it's not a melee weapon and the Fire rune is not attached to it.
Does that help or just make it muddier?
Have you looked it up in the
TDb
?
Please post TDb corrections in
this thread
.
If I
write something in teal, it should not be taken seriously