I didn’t do this problem, but I can imagine I might have been tripped up by the fact that “hammer” and “axe” are tools and not weapons. In standard DnD terminology, these are often considered “simple weapons”; distinct from “martial weapons” like warhammer and battleaxe, but still within the category of “weapons”.
I guess that the “toolish” abstractions might have tipped me off, though. And even if I had made this mistake, it would only have mattered for “simple-weapon” tools with a modifier.
I didn’t do this problem, but I can imagine I might have been tripped up by the fact that “hammer” and “axe” are tools and not weapons. In standard DnD terminology, these are often considered “simple weapons”; distinct from “martial weapons” like warhammer and battleaxe, but still within the category of “weapons”.
I guess that the “toolish” abstractions might have tipped me off, though. And even if I had made this mistake, it would only have mattered for “simple-weapon” tools with a modifier.
It was very obvious upon filtering to just-hammer or just-axe that the abstractions were suspiciously limited.