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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 2700554" data-attributes="member: 14041">OK, thinking about incorporating, to a limited degree, guns in Eberron.  But to make them unique they are going to be dragonshard items only useable by arcane casters.Simply put the gun would be made of a handle that holds the dragon shard, a trigger, and a small hammer (possibly with a piece of dragonshard in it) that would strike the shard and close the magical circuit+arcane runes etc for flavor's sake.  To use the gun the wielder must first invest it with the energy of an arcane spell as a standard action.  This charges the shard.  Damage done would be 1d6x the spell level used to empower the shard, 60ft range, ranged touch attack, does arcane energy damage similar to a warlock's blast, SR would apply. Artificers could sacrifice infusions to charge the weapon as well.  I  see them having been developed by the gnomes in Zilargo so that arcane spellcasters could concentrate on utility and divination spells  and still have a way to protect themselves.  Came into limited use during the war, but since then have begun to proliferate.Requires  Craft Wonderous Item to make.Thoughts?  Cost is one of the things I have yet to sit down and try and figure out.  We have the cost of the dragonshard + what?    Its obviously very useful, so should there be any downside to it?  Like requiring a feat to use?  Or guns with set levels, so that one would only be useful for spells of 3rd or below, one for 6th, one for 9th?  How about a possiblity of misfire?  Say 1% everytime the weapon is fired, culmulative?  and once it breaks it unleashes the charge on the caster?I am also considering feats that would allow a caster to bond with the weapon, granting the PC increased damage or range or other benifits when using the item.</blockquote>

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