Piercing Spell Instead of Gun

mthew · 09-27-2015, 10:17 AM

I'm running in a fantasy campaign that also allows TL/4 black powder firearms. Is there a way in standard 4e Magic to use a spell instead of a pistol to do a large piercing attack (pi+)? Winged Knife throwing musket balls at black-powder muzzle velocities? Stone Missle with more power to create lead missles rather than stone ones? Or do I have to create a specialized spell that I have to roll-play the research on (which the adventure doesn't really allow for)?

Nereidalbel · 09-27-2015, 10:42 AM

There's no RAW spell to do so. However, it shouldn't be too hard to come up with a variant of Ice Dagger, trading the Impaling for Pi+, and boosting the damage from 1d-1/energy to 1d/energy.

Bruno · 09-27-2015, 10:47 AM

I'd make it a variant of Stone Missile, probably with Stone Missile as the direct prerequisite. Create and launch something more like a sling-stone than the usual ball of rock.

Sam Baughn · 09-27-2015, 01:57 PM

What exactly are you trying to achieve? Staging an assassination and pinning it on someone armed with a gun?

Nereidalbel · 09-27-2015, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Perfect Organism

What exactly are you trying to achieve? Staging an assassination and pinning it on someone armed with a gun?

No, he wants to compete with the wounding of guns, without doing full impaling.

09-27-2015, 10:17 AM	#1
mthew Join Date: Jun 2008	Piercing Spell Instead of Gun I'm running in a fantasy campaign that also allows TL/4 black powder firearms. Is there a way in standard 4e Magic to use a spell instead of a pistol to do a large piercing attack (pi+)? Winged Knife throwing musket balls at black-powder muzzle velocities? Stone Missle with more power to create lead missles rather than stone ones? Or do I have to create a specialized spell that I have to roll-play the research on (which the adventure doesn't really allow for)?

09-27-2015, 10:42 AM	#2
Nereidalbel Join Date: May 2013 Location: Ellicott City, MD	Re: Piercing Spell Instead of Gun There's no RAW spell to do so. However, it shouldn't be too hard to come up with a variant of Ice Dagger, trading the Impaling for Pi+, and boosting the damage from 1d-1/energy to 1d/energy.

09-27-2015, 10:47 AM	#3
Bruno Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Canada	Re: Piercing Spell Instead of Gun I'd make it a variant of Stone Missile, probably with Stone Missile as the direct prerequisite. Create and launch something more like a sling-stone than the usual ball of rock. __________________ All about Size Modifier; Unified Hit Location Table A Wiki for my F2F Group A neglected GURPS blog

09-27-2015, 01:57 PM	#4
Sam Baughn Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and some other bits.	Re: Piercing Spell Instead of Gun What exactly are you trying to achieve? Staging an assassination and pinning it on someone armed with a gun?