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Re: Plausibility check for mixed TL3/4+2 firearm
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*I misremembered - I thought aqua regia was the term for mixed nitric and sulfuric acid, but it's actually the term for mixed nitric and hydrochloric acid. Oops. Quote:
EDIT: Also, it seems like it would be difficult to have the quartz - and its striker - electrically isolated from the barrel, yet fixed in place.
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03-09-2021, 08:41 AM | #42 | |
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Re: Plausibility check for mixed TL3/4+2 firearm
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03-09-2021, 10:04 AM | #43 | |
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All told, chances are good you'd be best off just using the available black powder with a flintlock rifle.
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03-09-2021, 04:34 PM | #44 | |
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03-09-2021, 05:09 PM | #45 |
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Re: Plausibility check for mixed TL3/4+2 firearm
Based on the skills available to the group, we're better off with the New Inventions process rather than the Raising The Local Tech Level rules. The GM has thrown in a house rule of "Inspiration Points", where the accidental time-travellers can tell a skilled local about the wonderous crafts of Ne-no-kuni* and give advice and guidance to make something similar. What that boils down to is that the PCs will be better as patrons and guides, rather than actual engineers. Assuming we can accumulate enough resources to attract skilled workers.
Based on how long it takes to gather Inspiration Points (After a month of game time we accumulated 1, which allowed a local healer to analyse a bottle of hand sanitizer and invent an antiseptic wash slightly better than the ones already in use), improved firearms are a long way off. * After our interactions over a month of game time, both with the locals and with the inspectors from the Department of Divinities, people have decided two things about us: A) We're lost wanderers from a magical realm similar to but wealthier and more powerful than the "real" world, and B) We're idiots. |
03-09-2021, 05:24 PM | #46 | |
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Per wikipedia prior to the 19th century invention of the contact process concentrations above around 80% could only be achieved by dry distillation of sulfur-bearing minerals. Which is fairly ancient, but excessively costly if large quantities are needed.
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03-10-2021, 04:00 AM | #47 |
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Re: Plausibility check for mixed TL3/4+2 firearm
My dad was pretty wild as a youth. He and his friends almost shot down a plane with a homemade "pipe"-rocket.
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