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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WhatThePhysics" data-source="post: 5926497" data-attributes="member: 6694078">My apologies. Here are some of the basic weapon concepts I'm thinking of.Fire Lance: A 6-inch tube of bamboo or metal, which is usually tied close to the lethal end of a spear. The point-facing end of the tube has a cloth covering to prevent its contents from spilling out, and the wielder-facing end has a tiny hole, with a spark-generating string coming out. The string is pulled to fire the charge, but it can be pulled more than once if it doesn't fire the first time. The tube contains ample amounts of gunpowder, enough to make it a very short-lived, single-use flamethrower. It's not used as a stand-alone weapon often, but it does takes time to remove and replace. It's total range should remain within 25 ft. of the wielder.Shrapnel Lance: A variant of the fire lance, with an only-metal tube that contains more explosive gunpowder, as well as small beads of metal or stone. It doesn't produce flame, but it does release the beads as lethal projectiles. Unlike the fire lance, it has range increments, but the most-effective range should be within 100 ft. of the wielder. It's identical to the fire lance in all other ways.Fire Arrow Launcher: A hand-held, 2-foot-long tube of metal that's designed to launch explosive arrows. The arrows themselves are a pouch of gunpowder that's attached to a stick, with that stick coated in a flammable liquid. The arrow detonates either upon hard impact, or after flying long enough for the flames to burn through the pouch. The launcher can be used more than once, as its inner charge of gunpowder is ignited when flame is brought near a small hole that exposes the powder; for convenience's sake, that same hole is used to refill the launcher. Unlike the previous two weapons, this is designed to have a range increment on par with (if not greater than) that of a crossbow.Land Mine: A wide, hollow pot of ceramic that's completely filled with gunpowder and metal beads, and has a large, removable disk at its opening. It's placed with its opening facing upwards, and detonates when sudden downward pressure forces the disk's flint edges to grind against a steel ring at the opening's mouth. This produces sparks, igniting the gunpowder. Naturally, this is a single-use weapon. There can be larger or smaller sizes, naturally.Shrapnel Bomb: A small, hollow orb of ceramic that's filled with gunpowder and metal beads. It has a small string attached, generally coated with flammable liquids, and extends inside of the orb. Simply light the string, throw the orb, and detonation should occur right away. (Now that I think about it, this could just be the Bomb weapon on p.145 of the DMG, with the damage type changed to piercing.)Poison Bomb: Like the shrapnel bomb, but contains a variant of gunpowder that produces noxious fumes in the place of an explosion. Also unlike its more immediately-destructive cousin, it is generally made of metal or stone, allowing it to be reused once depleted. (As with the Shrapnel Bomb, this could just be a re-tooled version of the Smoke Bomb on the same page as the Bomb, but with damage being dealt alongside the fog cloud effect.)</blockquote>

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