# Grenadoes, Fire, and Powder

*The Black Powder Armory, Firearms, Blades, and Armour for Exodus NDS, 1400 to 1938. Source: https://exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/black-powder-armory/grenadoes-fire-and-powder*

Things that are lit and thrown, and things that are lit and left.

**Thrown** entries are Light Ranged attacks at Short range. Lighting the fuse is the entry's **Prepare 1**, and it needs a lit match or a flame within reach.

**Blast X**: spend 2 Boons to deal X damage to everyone Engaged with the target. When the throw fails, spend 3 Boons from the failed check to apply the Blast damage to the target and everyone Engaged with it.

**Placed** charges are set with an Average Craft check and the maneuvers in their Prepare rating. They need no attack check. A charge deals its damage to what it is set against and its Blast to everyone Engaged with that.

**Fuses.** A fuse is cut for a delay of one round to five minutes. The GM may spend a Calamity on the setting check to make it burn in half the time or twice it.

**Loose powder is dangerous.** Any Fire damage to a character carrying a Powder Charge or Powder Keg sets it off on a Calamity.

**Skill:** Light Ranged for thrown entries, Craft for placed ones.

<img class="framed" src="https://exodusnds.com/assets/sourcebook/black_powder_armory/black-powder-armory-grenadoes.jpg">

##### <span class="weapon-bar blast"></span>Grenado
<span class="weapon-aka">Hand grenade, granado shell, glass grenade</span>

<div class="weapon blast">

<span class="dmg">7</span>
<span class="crit">4</span>
<span class="range short">Short</span>
<span class="enc">1</span>

</div>

<div class="weapon-detail">

<span class="skill">Light Ranged</span>
<span class="price">30</span>
<span class="avail">Military</span>
<span class="type">Blast</span>
<span class="qual">Blast 5, Limited Ammo 1, Prepare 1, Unreliable</span>

</div>

A hollow iron or glass ball filled with powder, with a fuse in a wooden plug. **Prepare 1** is lighting it. **Unreliable**: on 2 Bane or a Calamity the fuse goes out or burns too long, and the grenado lies where it fell until someone relights it.

##### <span class="weapon-bar none"></span>Stinkpot
<span class="weapon-aka">Stink ball, sulphur pot</span>

<div class="weapon none">

<span class="dmg">2</span>
<span class="crit">—</span>
<span class="range short">Short</span>
<span class="enc">1</span>

</div>

<div class="weapon-detail">

<span class="skill">Light Ranged</span>
<span class="price">15</span>
<span class="avail">Common</span>
<span class="type">—</span>
<span class="qual">Stun Damage, Blast 4, Disorient 3, Limited Ammo 1, Prepare 1</span>

</div>

An earthenware jar of sulphur, pitch, and rotten fish, lit and thrown onto an enemy deck. It chokes and blinds. Everyone Engaged with the point of impact who starts a turn in the smoke suffers 2 Strain. Below decks it lasts five rounds; in the open, one.

##### <span class="weapon-bar fire"></span>Fire Pot
<span class="weapon-aka">Fire grenade, Greek fire pot, carcass</span>

<div class="weapon fire">

<span class="dmg">5</span>
<span class="crit">5</span>
<span class="range short">Short</span>
<span class="enc">1</span>

</div>

<div class="weapon-detail">

<span class="skill">Light Ranged</span>
<span class="price">10</span>
<span class="avail">Common</span>
<span class="type">Fire</span>
<span class="qual">Burn 2, Blast 2, Limited Ammo 1, Prepare 1</span>

</div>

A clay pot of oil, pitch, and powder with a burning rag. Tarred rigging and dry sails catch from one.

##### <span class="weapon-bar blast"></span>Powder Charge
<span class="weapon-aka">Powder bag, flask bomb, cartridge bundle</span>

<div class="weapon blast">

<span class="dmg">10</span>
<span class="crit">3</span>
<span class="range short">Placed</span>
<span class="enc">1</span>

</div>

<div class="weapon-detail">

<span class="skill">Craft</span>
<span class="price">40</span>
<span class="avail">Common</span>
<span class="type">Blast</span>
<span class="qual">Blast 6, Limited Ammo 1, Prepare 2, Siege 2</span>

</div>

A few pounds of powder in a bag or a flask, with a fuse. It is set against a lock, a door, or a mast step.

##### <span class="weapon-bar blast"></span>Powder Keg
<span class="weapon-aka">Barrel of powder, half-barrel</span>

<div class="weapon blast">

<span class="dmg">14</span>
<span class="crit">3</span>
<span class="range short">Placed</span>
<span class="enc">6</span>

</div>

<div class="weapon-detail">

<span class="skill">Craft</span>
<span class="price">150</span>
<span class="avail">Common</span>
<span class="type">Blast</span>
<span class="qual">Blast 10, Limited Ammo 1, Prepare 2, Cumbersome 3, Siege 3</span>

</div>

Fifty pounds of gunpowder in a cask. Damage 14 and **Blast 10**. It needs Might 3 to carry at more than a walk. A ship's magazine holds hundreds, and its effect is the GM's to decide.

##### <span class="weapon-bar blast"></span>Petard
<span class="weapon-aka">Gate charge, breaching bell</span>

<div class="weapon blast">

<span class="dmg">8</span>
<span class="crit">—</span>
<span class="range short">Placed</span>
<span class="enc">4</span>

</div>

<div class="weapon-detail">

<span class="skill">Craft</span>
<span class="price">200</span>
<span class="avail">Military</span>
<span class="type">Blast</span>
<span class="qual">Pierce 6, Blast 3, Limited Ammo 1, Prepare 2, Breach 3</span>

</div>

A bronze bell of powder bolted to a plank and hung against a gate. **Pierce 6** against the structure. A gate or a door is opened without a check. The engineer who sets it is the one hoist by it if the fuse is short.

##### <span class="weapon-bar blast"></span>Dynamite Stick
<span class="weapon-aka">Giant powder, blasting gelatin</span>

<div class="weapon blast">

<span class="dmg">8</span>
<span class="crit">4</span>
<span class="range short">Short</span>
<span class="enc">1</span>

</div>

<div class="weapon-detail">

<span class="skill">Light Ranged</span>
<span class="price">30</span>
<span class="avail">Restricted</span>
<span class="type">Blast</span>
<span class="qual">Blast 6, Limited Ammo 1, Prepare 1, Siege 2</span>

</div>

A commercial blasting charge with a cap and fuse, from 1867. This is the same entry as in *The Modern Armory*.

<img class="framed" src="https://exodusnds.com/assets/sourcebook/black_powder_armory/black-powder-armory-grenadier.jpg">