Won't they still be using the less powerful smokepowder?
Is smoke powder less powerful? I don't recall it being so. It would use smoke powder, but the bullets would need to be like modern bullets, with the smoke powder in the cartridges.
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Won't they still be using the less powerful smokepowder?
Is smoke powder less powerful? I don't recall it being so. It would use smoke powder, but the bullets would need to be like modern bullets, with the smoke powder in the cartridges.
Smokepowder is too dirty for modern firearms. Would foul the chamber, and possibly lead to lethal backfire.
Modern ballistic cartridges are loaded with smokeless powder (nitrocellulose) instead of black powder (mostly potassium-based compounds).
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Won't they still be using the less powerful smokepowder?
Is smoke powder less powerful? I don't recall it being so. It would use smoke powder, but the bullets would need to be like modern bullets, with the smoke powder in the cartridges.
Smokepowder is too dirty for modern firearms. Would foul the chamber, and possibly lead to lethal backfire.
I didn't mean real life smokepowder, I meant FR smokepowder. I'm not sure what the differences are, except that FR smokepowder explodes when handled roughly, and also is magical.
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Won't they still be using the less powerful smokepowder?
Is smoke powder less powerful? I don't recall it being so. It would use smoke powder, but the bullets would need to be like modern bullets, with the smoke powder in the cartridges.
I presumed it was, because then what would be the reason for the ban on black powder?
Won't they still be using the less powerful smokepowder?
Is smoke powder less powerful? I don't recall it being so. It would use smoke powder, but the bullets would need to be like modern bullets, with the smoke powder in the cartridges.
I presumed it was, because then what would be the reason for the ban on black powder?
It's less powerful than black powder and also it allows the Church of Gond to have a monopoly on distribution.
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
The big improvement on firearms was the development of the rifled barrel, giving the projectile a spin as it flies. This both preserves momentum, increasing impact effect, as well as maintaining accuracy over any meaningful distance. Prior to rifling, firearms were extremely inaccurate. That's why the firing line was so common -- get as many guns pointed at the target as possible and have them fire as a single volley, to ensure you'd get as many hits as possible.
In Gary Gygax’s original game, there was also a crashed alien spaceship with a raygun of some type if I recall. (Probably where they got the idea for Fallout 3.) So there is precedent for that as well.
Yeah it crashed in the Barrier Peaks in the Greyhawk setting. I only played that module once ages ago. Our DM, did NOT want us to take the ray guns.
In Gary Gygax’s original game, there was also a crashed alien spaceship with a raygun of some type if I recall. (Probably where they got the idea for Fallout 3.) So there is precedent for that as well.
Yeah it crashed in the Barrier Peaks in the Greyhawk setting. I only played that module once ages ago. Our DM, did NOT want us to take the ray guns.
In Gary Gygax’s original game, there was also a crashed alien spaceship with a raygun of some type if I recall. (Probably where they got the idea for Fallout 3.) So there is precedent for that as well.
Yeah it crashed in the Barrier Peaks in the Greyhawk setting. I only played that module once ages ago. Our DM, did NOT want us to take the ray guns.
In Gary Gygax’s original game, there was also a crashed alien spaceship with a raygun of some type if I recall. (Probably where they got the idea for Fallout 3.) So there is precedent for that as well.
Yeah it crashed in the Barrier Peaks in the Greyhawk setting. I only played that module once ages ago. Our DM, did NOT want us to take the ray guns.
But ya did, didn’t ya?
...is that rhetorical?
I still have my copy of the Expedition to the Barrier Peaks one of my favorite adventures, it has so much fun stuff in it. But alas all those energy weapons, powered armor and other toys all ran on batteries that would die faster then an Eveready in a childs toy on christmas morning. But it has been updated by Goodman Games if I remember correctly.
Honestly, with proper experimentation and/or skill checks, a wizard or artificer shouldn't have too much trouble figuring out a way to charge the battery packs.
But we're rather off topic.
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Is smoke powder less powerful? I don't recall it being so. It would use smoke powder, but the bullets would need to be like modern bullets, with the smoke powder in the cartridges.
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Smokepowder is too dirty for modern firearms. Would foul the chamber, and possibly lead to lethal backfire.
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Modern ballistic cartridges are loaded with smokeless powder (nitrocellulose) instead of black powder (mostly potassium-based compounds).
You don't know what fear is until you've witnessed a drunk bird divebombing you while carrying a screaming Kobold throwing fire anywhere and everywhere.
I didn't mean real life smokepowder, I meant FR smokepowder. I'm not sure what the differences are, except that FR smokepowder explodes when handled roughly, and also is magical.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
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I presumed it was, because then what would be the reason for the ban on black powder?
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It's less powerful than black powder and also it allows the Church of Gond to have a monopoly on distribution.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
The big improvement on firearms was the development of the rifled barrel, giving the projectile a spin as it flies. This both preserves momentum, increasing impact effect, as well as maintaining accuracy over any meaningful distance. Prior to rifling, firearms were extremely inaccurate. That's why the firing line was so common -- get as many guns pointed at the target as possible and have them fire as a single volley, to ensure you'd get as many hits as possible.
We do seem, however, to be drifting off-topic.
Yeah it crashed in the Barrier Peaks in the Greyhawk setting. I only played that module once ages ago. Our DM, did NOT want us to take the ray guns.
But ya did, didn’t ya?
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...is that rhetorical?
I still have my copy of the Expedition to the Barrier Peaks one of my favorite adventures, it has so much fun stuff in it. But alas all those energy weapons, powered armor and other toys all ran on batteries that would die faster then an Eveready in a childs toy on christmas morning. But it has been updated by Goodman Games if I remember correctly.
Honestly, with proper experimentation and/or skill checks, a wizard or artificer shouldn't have too much trouble figuring out a way to charge the battery packs.
But we're rather off topic.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Hjalmar Gunderson, Vuman Alchemist Plague Doctor in a HB Campaign, Post Netherese Invasion Cormyr (lvl20 retired)
Godfrey, Autognome Butler in Ghosts of Saltmarsh into Spelljammer
Grímr Skeggisson, Goliath Rune Knight in Rime of the Frostmaiden
DM of two HB campaigns set in the same world.