Firearms

Antulexian · May 10, 2019

I need help. I'm about to start a tomb of annihalation campaign. And my player wants a gun(it fits he is a pirate). Like a pistol. Ive scanned the DMG and have not found anything despite the the posts on reddit. Can someone help me find the firearm page because either i'm oblivious or the posts are lying.

Radaceus · May 10, 2019

DMG pg268

S'mon · May 10, 2019

page 268

Antulexian · May 10, 2019

Omg thank you such a big help

jasper · May 10, 2019

Pistol 250 gp 1d10 pierce 3pd Ammo, 30/90 , loading

Eltab · May 11, 2019

As an alternative: the guards from one town in Out of the Abyss use a special-construction light crossbow which contains a small magazine of bolts.
Do same with a hand crossbow to get a six-shooter pistol.

Scott Graves · May 11, 2019

For a good pirate era pistol (fluff, not rules) go with a Tinker Gnome made Wheellock firearm. It would have the same rate of fire, loading, damage and such but no one sane person beyond another tinker gnome would want to be near anyone crazy enough to carry one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheellock

In GURPS they have a very high rate of catastrophic failures. Look at the pictures and read about when they were invented.

77IM · May 11, 2019

The firearms in the DMG are kind of overpowered. If I allowed them in my game, I'd play up their inherent drawbacks: expensive ammo; LOUD; and when you get hit by fire damage you might explode.

Also, because they are so expensive, I wouldn't want to give one out during character creation as part of an equipment package. I might allow a character to have an "older model" that is one damage die smaller, and costs 1/10 the price. Hmmm...

Radaceus · May 11, 2019

Matt Mercer's Gunslinger archetype is also worth considering if you are going to allow pistols

Kobold Avenger · May 11, 2019

One of the problems with the Renaissance Firearms is that they reload too fast. Historically experts could fire a musket about 3 times per minute. That roughly translates into taking 2 rounds to reload. But for the sake of record-keeping and ease of play at tables reload time could be reduced to 1 round.

I don't they should take bonus actions to reload as I want firearm combat to involve swords as necessary backup weapons, and having bayonets see use.