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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8593607" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Probably?  Just look at some of the reagents alchemists used, like "red sulfur".  And it doesn't even matter if it WAS the same, the physical laws of the D&D universe might prevent the standard mix from working.  In Roger Zelazny's novel, The Guns of Avalon, you can bring gunpowder from other dimensions to the protagonist's world, but it didn't work.  Only by chance did he discover a compound that, while inert on it's home plane, functioned in a similar manner to gunpowder on his world.In Joel Rosenberg's "Guardians of the Flame", college students from Earth go to a fantasy world, and one of them manages to create (after trial and error) viable gunpowder.  The wizards of that world, not understanding it, created a magical equivalent that exploded when it came into contact with water.This just goes to show that even if the knowledge gets out, it doesn't mean others will immediately be able to monopolize on it, if at all.  "Create Smoke Powder" could be a magic spell that the Arcane offer to sell to prospective clients, along with the ability to craft Spelljammer Helms.</blockquote>