Weapon Properties

Many weapons have special properties related to their use, as shown in the Weapons table:

Alt-Sided. When making an attack with an Alt-Sided weapon, typically one that has both a sharper and blunted side, you can choose to deal one of its other damage type. The type of which appears in parentheses with the property.

Ammunition. You can use a weapon that has the Ammunition property to make a ranged Attack only if you have ammuni⁠tion to fire from the weapon. Each time you atta⁠ck with the weapon, you expend one piece of ammu⁠nition. Drawing the ammuni⁠tion from a Quiver, case, or other container is part of the atta⁠ck (you need a free hand to load a one-handed weapon). At the end of the battle, you can recover half your expended ammu⁠nition by taking a minute to sear⁠ch the battlefield.

If you use a weapon that has the Ammunition property to make a melee Attack, you treat the weapon as an Improvised Weapon. A sling must be loaded to deal any damage when used in this way.

Draw Weight. Draw Weight in bows is the amount of strength needed to pull a bow. You cannot attack with this weapon effectively if you do not meet the Strength requirement of the weapon, of which appears in parentheses with the property.

Finesse. When making an Attack with a finesse weapon, you use your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the Attack and Damage Rolls. You must use the same modifier for both rolls.

Heavy. Creatures that are Small or Tiny have disadvantage on Attack rolls with heavy Weapons. A heavy weapon’s size and bulk make it too large for a Small or Tiny creature to use effectively.

Ligh⁠t. A lig⁠ht weapon is small and easy to handle, making it ideal for use when Fighting with two Weapons. See the rules for two-weapon Fighting in " Making an Attack " section.

A light weapon is also small enough to be hidden within one's apparel or clothing, making any appropriate Stealth or Sleight of Hand checks required to do so.

Loading. Because of the time required to load this weapon, you can fire only one piece of Ammunition from it when you use an action, Bonus Action, or Reaction to fire it, regardless of the number of attacks you can normally make.

Range. A weapon that can be used to make a ranged Attack has a range in parentheses after the Ammunition or thrown property. The range lists two numbers. The first is the weapon’s normal range in feet, and the second indicates the weapon’s long range. When attacking a target beyond normal range, you have disadvantage on the Attack roll. You can’t Attack a target beyond the weapon’s long range.

Reach. This weapon adds 5 feet to your reach when you Attack with it, as well as when determining your reach for Opportunity Attacks with it (see Making an Attack).

Special. A weapon with the special property has unusual rules governing its use, explained in the weapon’s description (see “Special Properties” later in this section).

Strapped. This weapon is strapped your arm like a shield does. You can't be disarmed with this weapon, however you can't wield or hold items while it continues to be strapped. You can strap and unstrap a weapon as an bonus action. Unless it is your limb that is removed, which is a different story.

Superheavy. This weapon is unusually large and unwieldy for most medium-sized creatures. You must have a Strength score of 19 or higher to wield a superheavy weapon if you aren't large-sized or larger.

Thrown. If a weapon has the thrown property, you can throw the weapon to make a ranged Attack. If the weapon is a melee weapon, you use the same ability modifier for that atta⁠ck roll and damage roll that you would use for a melee att⁠ack with the weapon. For example, if you throw a Handaxe, you use your Strength, but if you throw a Dagger, you can use either your Strength or your Dexterity, since the Dagger has the finesse property.

Two-Handed. This weapon requires two hands when you Attack with it.

Versatile. This weapon can be used with one or two hands. A damage value in parentheses appears with the property—the damage when the weapon is used with two hands to make a melee Attack.

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Other Metals TBD:

• Celestial Steel - Used to channel or resist Radiant energy.
• Star Metal - Asteroid metal used to craft Adamantine.
• Darksteel - Star metal marinated in magical oils.
• Whitesteel - Tungsten but fancy
• Infernal Iron - Iron made and found in the Lower Planes, like Hell or the Abyss.
• Truesilver - Transmutation and Elemental resistant/immune metal.
• Icesteel - Cold Steel, resists fire and channels destructive cold power.
• Ghost Metal - Metal that interacts with spirits, quintessence, and incorporeal things. Can phase through your body, or corporealize to inflict damage.
• Deep Rock - Rocks, mineral, mud that can be forged into metal-like equipment.
• D&D Vibranium - Arambium in Forgotten Realms, it enhances magical enchantments placed on its metals. Forged from the heart of a dead primordial.
• Spell-Null Metal - Called Arandur in Forgotten Realms, a precious metal, of which it's ore needs to be preserved and tempered with red/blue dragon blood. Becomes powerful magical items or enchanted items. Resists all elemental and force damage. Can't even be hit by magic missiles.

Other Materials

• Chardalyn - Demon Crystal, easily malleable and enchantable, causes madness.
• Lilacium - Glittercystal, absorbs and refracts light at intervals, seemingly can provide a lot of light if used in tandem with magical devices or recrafted as a magical item. Example, a piece of Lilacium is used in the creation of Driftglobes.
• Sablewood - Durable-Wood, the smaller a piece of wood, the more durable it becomes. Used in indestructable arrows or bolts.

Custom Metals

• Orichalcum. Resists and enhances psychic effects. Forged from a combination of copper and star-metal, temperatures need to reach the sun to smelt it.

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--- INDUSTRIAL ERA WEAPONS ---

Additional Weapon Properties

Industrial Era weapons come with new features, new tech, and new properties as shown in the Weapons table:

Fueled. Fueled weapons use some form of gas or oil, that you must spend 30 seconds to refuel from an appropriate fuel container.

The fuel can last for up to 1 hour, all at once or in several shorter uses, each one using a minimum of 1 minute from the duration (example being Combat). When the fuel's duration expires, you can no longer use the weapon's property that requires it.

Sawblade. This weapon uses a chained array of serrated teeth, the teeth spin at high velocities, causing an attack that connects to hurt quite painfully.

You can use a bonus action to activate the Sawblade, and you can use a bonus action to de-activate it. While the Sawblade is active, you deal additional damage (the damage die listed in its property), and add it to the weapon's total damage rolls per hit.

The Sawblade, while active, is incredibly unwieldy and you must have a Str score of 13 or else you have disadvantage on attacks with it.

Whenever you make an attack roll and the roll is a 1, roll the weapon's damage dice. If you roll a 1 on one of the dice, the weapon malfunctions and you remove that 1d4 extra damage from the rolls. The damage is removed from an active sawblade until you replace the saw teeth, which you can do during a long rest.

Firearm Properties

Firearms have special properties related to their use, deviating and following Properties from Firearm Properties back in the Renaissance Era, but different if listed here.

Anti-

Anti- Prefixed Weapons are specifically utilized in warfare against individual foes, such as the grand warmachines of the future or legions of vile warriors.

Anti-Armor. Anti-Armor Weapons deal two different damage against certain targets. It deals its lesser damage against targets that are using Light, Medium, or Natural Armor / Unarmored Defense. It deals its higher damage against target creatures that are in Heavy Armor or are Objects or Structures that are made of inorganic material that has a Natural AC of 17 or higher.

Anti-Infantry. Anti-Infantry Weapons deal two different damage against certain targets. It deals its lesser damage against targets that are: in Heavy Armor or are Objects or Structures that are made of inorganic material that has a Natural AC of 15 or lower. It deals its higher damage against target creatures that are: using Light, Medium, or Natural Armor / Unarmored Defense.

Anti-Structure. Anti-Structure Weapons deal Double Damage to Objects and Structures. This doesn't include vehicles, that's why there's an anti-vehicle tag.

Anti-Vehicle. Anti-Vehicle Weapons deal Maximum Damage with its damage dice to Objects and Structures that are part of a Vehicle. Anti-Vehicle Weapons also automatically overcome any Damage Thresholds the Vehicle may have.

Special Properties

Weapons with special rules are described here.

Grenade Launcher. Grenades you launch, firing with the grenade launcher can be thrown 120 feet instead of 60 feet. The Grenade Launcher can used in place of an attack, for the purposes of replacing an attack if you had the Multiattack feature.

Minigun. You must spin the Minigun's barrel before making attacks with it. You must spend a bonus action to spin the barrel, of which continues to spin as long as you make attacks with it. If your turn ends and you haven't fired the weapon since your last turn, the barrel stops spinning.

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Damage Type Abbreviations

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• F = Fire
• N - Necrotic
• PO - Poison

Additional Weapon Properties

Futuristic Era weapons come with new features, new tech, and new properties as shown in the Weapons table:

Powered. Powered weapons use Energy Cells, that must be exchanged when empty which can be done as an action.

An Energy Cell for most weapons lasts for 1 minute when activated, all at once or in several shorter uses, each one using a minimum of 6 seconds from the duration. As a bonus action, you can activate a Powered Weapon, and deactivate it as a bonus action (i.e. just turning it on and off uses 12 seconds). When the Energy Cell expires, you can no longer use the Weapon's Property that requires it.

The Plasma Saber specifically can only deal its damage while powered.

Futuristic Firearm Properties

Firearms have special properties related to their use, deviating and following Properties from Firearm Properties back in the Renaissance Era, but different if listed here.

Ammunition. Futuristic Firearms use Energy Cells as ammunition. Ammunition of a firearm is destroyed upon use. One Energy Cell counts for all of shots made with a futuristic firearm, listed with the reload property.

Reload. A limited number of shots can be made with a weapon that has the reload property (the amount listed in parenthesis). A character can then reload it, using an action or a bonus action.

Overheat. Whenever you roll high damage with all of the die for a futuristic firearm (for a d6, if you roll a 5 or 6; for a d8, if you roll a 7 or 8), the firearm overheats and immediately deals you one of its damage dice. Attacks you make with the firearm continues to immediately deal you one of its damage dice per attack you make with it. The firearm must spend 1 round, making no shots with it during that time, to cool off. When it cools off, it no longer has this property until its effects are activated again.

Special Properties

Weapons with special rules are described here.

Gatling Laser. You must spin the Gatling Laser's barrels before making attacks with it. You must spend a bonus action to spin the barrel, of which continues to spin as long as you make attacks with it. If you turn ends and you haven't fired the weapon since your last turn, the barrel stops spinning.

The Gatling Laser specifically fires 10 lasers pers second, firing and using 60 shots per attack made with it. Every 50 shots costs 1 Energy Cell.

Force Impact. Mauls, hammers, and especially battering rams are enchanted by Force Impact, an arcanically charged weapon that causes it to immediately pulse with hyperphysical energy, which allows it to easily create catastrophic damage.

Power Blade. A futuristic power blade is an arcanically charged weapon, creating a small field of disruption that destabalizes matter and allows it to easily tear through armor, creatures, or objects.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder is sold in small wooden kegs and in waterproof powder horns.

Setting fire to an ounce of gunpowder causes it to flare for 1 round, shedding bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet.

Powder Bomb. As an action, a character can light and throw this bomb to a point up to 60 feet away. Each creature within 5 feet of that point must succeed on a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw or take 3d6 fire damage.

Lit Powder Keg. You can roll or throw the keg up to 15 feet as part of the same action. The keg explodes at the start of your next turn, and each creature must make a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 7d6 fire damage and is knocked prone. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and isn't knocked prone.

Every other keg of gunpowder within 20 feet of an exploding keg has a 50% chance of also exploding. Each keg only rolls the chance once per turn, no matter how many other kegs explode around it.

Lit Powder Horn. You can throw the horn up to 20 feet as part of the same action. Each creature within 5 feet of that point must succeed on a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw or take 3d6 fire damage.

Dynamite

As an action, a creature can light a stick of dynamite and throw it at a point up to 60 feet away. Each creature within 5 feet of that point must make a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw, taking 3d6 bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

A character can bind sticks of dynamite together so they explode at the same time. Each additional stick increases the damage by 1d6 (to a maximum of 10d6) and the burst radius by 5 feet (to a maximum of 20 feet).

Dynamite can be rigged with a longer fuse to explode after a set amount of time, usually 1-6 rounds. Roll initiative for the dynamite (with a modifier of +0). After the set number of rounds go by, the dynamite explodes on that initiative.

Grenade

As an action, a character can throw a grenade at a point up to 60 feet away. With a Grenade Launcher, a character can launch the grenade up to 120 feet away. The grenade either detonates on impact with a surface or detonates on a timer that causes them to explode at the start of your next turn.

Each creature within 20 feet of an exploding fragmentation grenade must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d6 piercing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Incendiary Grenade. All creatures in the within a 20 foot radius must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or take 5d6 fire damage, half as much on a successful save. Flammable objects in the area of effect that aren't being worn or carried catch fire. Next round, and for 1d4 rounds thereafter, each creature that failed the saving throw against the explosion suffers an additional 1d6 fire damage from residual chemicals burning. A DC 15 Constitution saving throw is allowed at the end of the affected creature's turn, ending the ongoing damage on itself on a successful one. Each half a gallon of water thrown on the target will reduce the damage by 1, and total immersion in water will negate residual burns and end the effect.

Poison Gas Grenade. All creatures within a 20 foot radius must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. Creatures failing their saving throw take 5d6 poison damage, or half as much damage on a successful one. All creatures taking damage from the poison gas are also poisoned until the end of their next turn. The cloud of poisonous vapors persists for 1 minute in a stagnant area, causing the area to be lightly obscured. In a ventilated area it will be gone in 5 rounds. In windy situations (such as if targeted by gust of wind), it will last only 1 round. The grenade cannot be used effectively in very windy situations. Any creature ending their turn within the gas grenade's area of effect must make a Constitution saving throw if they have not already done so, suffering the effects of the gas again.

Sleep Gas Grenade. All creatures within a 20 foot radius where the grenade lands must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, as light clouds of sleeping gas billow forth. A creature that breathes the gas and fails the saving throw becomes poisoned for 1 hour. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, it is also unconscious while poisoned in this way. The creature wkaes up if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it away.

Any creature ending their turn within the gas's radius must make another saving throw against its effects, even if they have already succeeded. This reflects persistent qualities of the gas. Cloud persistency is the same as if it was a poison gas grenade.

Smoke Grenade One round after a smoke grenade lands, it emits a cloud of smoke that creates a heavily obscured area in a 20-foot radius. A moderate wind (at least 10 miles per hour) disperses the smoke in 4 rounds; a strong wind (20 or more miles per hour) disperses it in 1 round.

Missile

Missiles must be fired from a Rocket Launcher of the varying types, to act how they are written. Otherwise a remote detonated or thrown unprimed missile can be treated as a grenade.

When a Missile is fired, it targets a point within range, which either requires sight or is electronically programmed by the missile launcher's device (a computer system or GPS system). The Missile doesn't automatically move to the designated point, rather moves up to its FPR (feet-per-round) until it reaches the point and explodes on impact with a surface. It moves immediately up to its FPR when fired, and on subsequent turns it moves at the start of the turn of the creature which fired the missile.

The current version of missile presented here is an RPG (Rocket-Propelled Grenade), which is used by infantry, or hand-held operatives for the purposes of an short-range antitank missile. Variants of missile launching systems include Cruise Missiles, Hypersonic Missiles, Missile Defense System. These missiles all ambiguously work AAM (air to air), SAM (surface to air), but unless they have the Torpedo property, will not function for AUM or SUM (air/surface to underwater) and will automatically fail to detonate underwater.

Cruise Missile. A cruise missile fires at very long distances, and has an installed tracking system which designates its movement to a set location, usually programmed and designated when launched. Such a missile has a range calculated in miles.

Hypersonic Missile. A hypersonic missile moves incredibly fast.

Demolitions Skill

A creature Proficient with Demolitions can add their Proficiency Bonus to the DC of any Explosives they use or set.

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Wheeled

This Siege Equipment has been built over a frame of four or more supporting wheels. This barely allows creatures to move the Siege Equipment. Creatures must take an action to move up to a Siege Equipment's movement (listed in the Property), though if it requires more creatures to operate such as the four pushers of a Battering Ram, the equipment only moves when the last creature takes this action.

Wheeled equipment works with some sound logics, it has more difficulty rolling up an incline, but an easier time down a decline. It also considers most terrain that isn't flat difficult terrain.

Battering Ram. A Battering Ram requires four creatures to push it. A battering ram can be moved up to 30 feet with all creatures pushing.

Cannons. Cannons can be equipped/come equipped on a wheeled mount to protect from recoil. A cannon can be moved up to 15 feet with a single creature, or up to 30 feet with two or more than one but no more.

Mangonel. A Mangonel is a maneuverable rolling catapult (at least the proper nomenclature). A mangonel can be moved up to 15 feet with a single creature, or up to 30 feet with two or more than one but no more.

Siege Tower. A common siege tower is 20-feet wide, and up to 40 or more feet tall to match the height of the walls it is trying to overcome. It is pushed by a minimum of 4, and a maximum of 16 or more. A siege tower can be moved up to 30 feet with all creatures pushing.

Siege Weapon Attacks

Siege Weapons can be better utilized in more physically capable or intelligent hands. All weapons across eras have specific +# to hit bonuses, unless the bonus comes from a more capable creature.