D&D (2024) Firearms to be made a fixed part of the game, new Weapons Rules

[Henadic Theologian]

What exactly is going to make this PHB bigger?

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Hooray for official rules for firearms, hard no to having them in my campaigns.

Come on now, doesn't everyone's campaign world look like this?

 

[Vaalingrade]

This tweet is categorically incorrect. Greyhawk has never had firearms, as gunpowder doesn't work there. The lone exception to this is the "6 shooters" belonging to Myrlund, but those are actually wands.

Every setting that is ever coming back?

 

[ZetaShift]

Woah is that first pic a leak from the warriors doc?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

What exactly is going to make this PHB bigger?

More art, a glossary, more subclasses, more weapons rules.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

More art, a glossary, more subclasses, more weapons rules.

Yet they can't find room for the Aasimar & Genasi.

 

[Horwath]

More art, a glossary, more subclasses, more weapons rules.

now if we only get more set DC examples for skills and tools.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

now if we only get more set DC examples for skills and tools.

I just heard they're cutting the aasimar and genasi to make room for this.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

They should have firearms in the PHB much like how they did back in 2e (though the 2e Arquebus had the ridiculous exploding damage die rule). It seems that they are at least acknowledging it's the Early Renaissance when firearms were around.

Also actual heavy crossbows, as in the ones with a windlass that you have to crank, took even longer to reload than those primitive firearms where you had to shove and pour things down the muzzle.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

They should have firearms in the PHB much like how they did back in 2e (though the 2e Arquebus had the ridiculous exploding damage die rule). It seems that they are at least acknowledging it's the Early Renaissance when firearms were around.

Also actual heavy crossbows, as in the ones with a windlass that you have to crank, took even longer to reload than those primitive firearms where you had to shove and pour things down the muzzle.

I think the most important rule is that you deduct constitution after contineous use of firearms because of lead intoxication.