thanks for the help.

"COM DISH
Heavy: Continual. When this object is used in an attack, modify the attacker’s damage value by +1 for the attack.

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Light: Continual. When you give a character an action to attack using this object, it does not count toward your available actions for the turn."

Enjoy!

(for the record, all the texts of the special objects (including the 3-D ones from the starters/adventure kits) can be found in the Player Guide)

so the com dish is really just a continual light object???

Should have seen that coming, sorry.

In fact the Com Dish is a heavy object, but it modifies the damage value by another +1 when used in a close combat attack; so, in total it modifies the damage value by +3 (+2 from being a heavy object, and +1 from its special ability).

Continual just means that it keeps its special ability when carried or moved - the Com Dish is still destroyed once it's been used in an attack.