Alchemists' Toybox- Gunpowder; House Rule: Feats (D&D 5e)

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Feats

Alchemists' Toybox- Gunpowder; House Rule: Siege Equipment (D&D 5e)

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Siege Equipment

These rules replace the stats for Cannons from pg 255 of the DMG.

Siege Equipment
Name	Cost	Weight
Cannon	50,000 gp	5,000 lbs
Demi-cannon	10,000 gp	3,000 lbs
Culverin	3,000 gp	500 lbs
Bombard	1500 gp	100 lb
Field cannon	5,000 gp	2,000

Alchemists' Toybox- Gunpowder; House Rule: Adventuring Equipment (D&D 5e)

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Adventuring Equipment

Item	Cost	Weight
Ammunition
Bird of flame	5 gp	1 lb
Cartridge (5)	2 gp	1 lb
Cannon ball	special	special
Bomb
Blasting Stick	200 gp	1 lb
Burster	150 gp	1 lb
Flasher	300 gp	2 lb
Smoker	200 gp	3 lb
Grenade	200 gp	1 lb
Incendiary	150 gp	1 lb
Dragonwater	100 gp	1 lb
Fuse (1 round)	1 sp	-
Gunpowder
Keg	250 gp	20 lb
Horn	35 gp	2 lb
Phoenix down	1000 gp	-
Smokestick	5 gp	-
Sunrod	10 gp	1 lb
Tindertwig	1 gp	-

Alchemists' Toybox- Gunpowder; House Rule: Gunpowder Weapons (D&D 5e)

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These rules replace the renaissance firearms (DMG 267-268) and cannons (DMG 255).

Weapons

Name	Cost	Damage	Weight	Properties
Simple Melee Weapons
Bayonet	2 gp	1d4 piercing	1 lb	Finesse, light, special
Simple Ranged Weapons
Fire flower	2 gp	1d6 fire	-	Finesse, light, thrown (30/60), special
Martial Ranged Weapons
Arquebus	400 gp	2d4 piercing	12 lb	Firearm (range 30/120), heavy, loading, two-handed
Blunderbuss	1000 gp	2d6 piercing	18 lb.	Firearm (range 20/90), heavy, loading, two-handed
Flintlock Rifle	750 gp	1d10 piercing	5 lb.	Firearm (range 150/600), loading, two-handed
Heavy Pistol	250 gp	1d10 piercing	3 lb	Firearm (range 30/90), loading
Light Pistol	200 gp	1d8 piercing	2 lb	Firearm (range 20/60), light, loading
Musket	500 gp	1d8 piercing	5 lb	Firearm (range 80/320), loading, two-handed
Firebird launcher	600 gp	1d10 fire	1 lb	Ammunition (range 120/500), loading, two-handed

Firearm. These weapons use ammunition. Generally, this ammunition is in the form of both a cartridge of gunpowder and a sling bullet. Ammunition discharged from firearms cannot be recovered.

Bayonet. A bayonet can be attached to the end of a musket as an action. When this is done you count as wielding both weapons simultaneously. This does not affect the use of the musket, however the bayonet loses the finesse and light traits and adds heavy and reach.

Fire flower. When used a fire flower self-ignites and explodes, so it cannot be recovered.

Firebird launcher.  This metal tube is used to launch birds of flame, which are ignited as part of the attack and explode, so they cannot be recovered.

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Alchemists' Toybox- Gunpowder; House Rule: Gunpowder and Magic (D&D 5e)

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Any arcane spellcaster who uses a form of gunpowder as a component in a spell or uses a component or focus covered in black powder, intentionally or unintentionally, risks losing control of their magic in a surge of energy. They must succeed on an Intelligence (Arcana) check with a DC of 13 plus the spell’s level or experience a Wild Magic Surge (per the sorcerer Wild Magic ability). If a scroll is strewn with black powder using it forces you to make a Wisdom saving throw or suffer the Wild Magic Surge, in this case results that do not apply result in a Scroll Mishap (DMG 140).

Sprinkling a cartridge worth of gunpowder into a potion, or mixing it with magical dusts or powders, forces a roll on the Potion Miscibility table (DMG 140).

If you have proficiency in the Arcana skill, you can spend a minute and a cartridge worth of gunpowder to detect the presence of magic within 30 feet. Any barrier blocks this effect, but visible creatures or objects that bear magic allow an Intelligence (Arcana) check against DC 13 to determine the school of magic. Doing this does not cause issues with either scrolls or potions.

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Alchemists' Toybox- Gunpowder; Contents (D&D 5e)

• Gunpowder and Magic
• Gunpowder Weapons
• Adventuring Equipment
• Siege Equipment
• Feats
• Class Options

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New Magic Items; Honoring the Ancients (D&D 5e)

New Warlock Patron; The Honored Ancients (D&D 5e)

Rather than a pact with otherworldly entities, you are part of an honored legacy. Whether these forbears called you to their service or you sought out their approval and gifts, you have become a direct link between the history of your people and their present. These ancient spirits often have their own inscrutable designs and desires, however. Over generations even the most benevolent may come to see the bloodlines and communities as groups and have less empathy for the struggles and even lives of individuals. Some, however, are less altruistic than believed by their descendants, seeing those they watch over as tools and weapons to be turned to their own purposes.

Expanded Spell List

The Ancestors let you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.

Level	Ancestor
1	Bless, Heroism
2	Augury, Gentle Repose
3	Speak With Dead, Revivify
4	Arcane Eye, Death Ward
5	Legend Lore, Raise Dead

Guiding Spirits

Starting at 1stlevel your ancestors make their will and blessings known to you directly. While their intent is often difficult for you to discern, you do gain the benefits of the cantrip guidance. This does not count towards your number of cantrips known.

Watchful Spirits

As you gain power your ancestral spirits become more interested in your progression and go beyond providing small nudges of aid.

At 6th level as an action you can choose one of your ability scores. As long as you maintain concentration on this connection, up to one hour, you have advantage on checks with that ability score. If you choose Constitution you also gain an additional 2d6 temporary hit points which are lost when this effect ends, Strength doubles your carrying capacity, and Dexterity prevents you from taking damage from falls of 20 feet or less unless you are Incapacitated. You cannot use this ability again until after you take a long rest. At 14th level you regain use of this ability after taking either a short or long rest.

Guardian Spirits

Once you reach 10th level you have become one of those whose names will be honored among your lineage. Your ancestors work openly at your side, helping to protect you until you join them among the honored dead.

You can summon a spectral apparition which hovers in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within 30 feet of you. This guardian occupies that space and is indistinct. Any creature hostile to you that moves to a space within 10 feet of the guardian for the first time on a turn or begins their turn within that area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw. The creature takes 20 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The guardian vanishes when it has dealt a total of 60 damage in a day. If the guardian has not dealt all of its damage for the day you can dismiss or recall it as an action. Once the guardian has dealt 60 points of damage in a day you can only recall it again after you complete a long rest. At 14th level the total daily damage of your guardian spirit increases to 100 points.

Spirit Ascension

At 14th level you have become a legend among your people, and gain the knowledge needed to join the honored dead who watch over and lead them. You are encouraged by your people, both living and dead, to be interred among the great heroes of your line to help watch over and guide your family and their descendants, so you can rise again with these heroes of myth and legend if something truly terrible should threaten them.

As an action, you may cause yourself to enter a cataleptic state that is indistinguishable from death. You appear dead to all outward inspection and to spells used to determine your status. You can’t move (your move speed is 0) or use reactions, and may only take a limited number of actions as described below. You have resistance to all damage except psychic damage. While in this state you also cease aging and disease and poison have no effect until you end your use of this ability.

Even though you cannot move, and your eyes are often closed, while you are in this state you can see and hear, having full awareness of your surroundings as if you could look around. You can also perceive and communicate with the spirits of others in this state which you can see. However, the only actions you can take are to end this effect or attempting to possess a humanoid’s body. You can attempt to possess any humanoid within 100 feet of your body that you can see (creatures warded by a protection from evil and good or magic circle spells can’t be possessed). The target must make a Charisma saving throw against your spellcasting DC, though they may choose to fail this saving throw, such as if this is used on willing descendant attempting to channel your wisdom and advice for the community.

On a failure, your soul moves into the target’s body and the target’s soul becomes trapped within your body. Your original body is incapacitated with a speed of 0. On a success, the target resists your efforts to possess it, and you can’t attempt to possess it again for 24 hours. Once you possess a creature’s body, you control it. Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the creature though you retain your alignment and your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You retain the benefit of your own class features. If the target has any class levels, you can’t use any of its class features.

While possessing a body, you can use your action to return from the host body to your own if it is within 100 feet of you, returning the host creature’s soul to its body. If the host body dies while you’re in it, the creature dies, and you must make a Charisma saving throw against your own spellcasting DC. On a success, you return to your own body if it is within 100 feet of you. Otherwise, you die. If your body is more than 100 feet away from you, or if your body is dead when you attempt to return to it, you die. If another creature’s soul is in your body when it is destroyed, the creature’s soul returns to its body if the body is alive and within 100 feet. Otherwise, that creature dies.

After you end this effect you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.

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One of the things I love about 5e is the Warlock; it carves out a wholly new and interesting space with the concept of arcane sponsored magic. Not quite clerics of lesser gods bound by literal Faustian bargains. To say that the concept is ripe for development is a grave understatement. In fact, finding inspiration for a new way to make an interesting pact is the easy part. It's more challenging to find new and compelling rules sets to marry to new bargains, making them interesting and unique rather than re-fluffed retreads of existing pacts. Even so, it's an area ripe for development, and if I ignore that field it's only because I've had fields of development in other areas that I've felt are long standing areas of neglect by core developers.

The existence of ancestor worship in the real world has begged to be addressed across several editions. Invariably it has been addressed, in an unsatisfactory manner, with clerics. But! With the advent of warlocks we have a much more appropriate tool. Already designed to represent the avatars of minor power, these demiclerics don't require the same level of rework that their precursors did. Instead, I was able to focus on what would make an ancestor-worshiping spellcaster tick. I've obviously dipped deeply into the wells of divination and even necromancy, as ancestor worship is predicated on the guidence of those ancestors  and the preservation of both their spirits and the lineages they watch over. 

In many ways the power progression is more like the transformative sorcerer than the offensive warlock. But one of the benefits of 5e's subclass system is that you can bend the progression of a pact and not have to entirely rework the class. There is also some irony that this, ultimately but unintentionally, dovetails with the work I've done with non-evil necromancy and at 14th level lets characters turn into a version of a Baelnorn-like being.