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# Weapons for Shadowdark
- URL: https://www.worlddreamer.online/weapons-for-shadowdark/
- Published: 2026-10-14T09:12:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-14T09:16:55.000Z
- Author: Sebastian Martin
- Tags: Methatheosis

For my setting of Metatheosis, and especially for the maritime campaign I am working on, I expanded the Shadowdark arsenal with blackpowder weapons, harpoons, some can-openers to defeat heavy armor, and special weapons for hunters, the Jägerwaffen.Those are the giant weapons we know and love from Monsterhunter or Dark Souls. They inflict enormous damage, or defeat armor, but attack with disadvantage due to their weight. So the hunters will have to create circumstances that give them advantage on the attack to compensate, like ambush, traps, poison or group tactics. 

**Scatter (SC):** The damage die can be distributed between several targets close to each other

**Area (AE):** The weapon hits everything within near of the impact

**Armor Piercing (AP):** The weapon ignores up to 5 points of AC from armor or shields.

**Slow Loading (SL):** It takes an entire round to load the weapon

**Heavy (HE):** This weapon is so cumbersome that you get disadvantage on attacks with the weapon.

**Rope (R):** A rope can be fastened to the weapon. If it inflicts any damage, it sticks in the target. It can be pulled out with a DC 15 STR check, inflicting their damage again when pulled out.

**Underwater (UW):** Can be used underwater at range and without disadvantage. 

| Weapon        | Cost    | Type | Range | Damage   | Properties                      |
| ------------- | ------- | ---- | ----- | -------- | ------------------------------- |
| Arquebus      | 50gp    | R    | F     | 1d8      | 2H, SL, AP,                     |
| Musket        | 100 gp  | R    | F     | 1d10     | 2H, SL, AP, 2 slots             |
| Blunderbuss   | 75 gp   | R    | N     | 2D6      | 2H, SC, SL                      |
| Pistol        | 50 gp   | R    | N     | 1D6      | SL                              |
| Clay-Grenade  | 5 gp    | R    | N     | 1D8      | Th, AE                          |
| Iron-Grenade  | 10 gp   | R    | N     | 1D10     | Th, AE                          |
| Flame-Pot     | 5 gp    | R    | N     | 1D4      | covers a near area for 4 rounds |
| Battle Hammer | 5 gp    | M    | C     | 1D6      | AP                              |
| Polehammer    | 10 gp   | M    | C     | 1D8      | 2H, 2 slots, AP                 |
| Trident       | 5 gp    | M/R  | C/N   | 1D6      | Th                              |
| Harpoon       | 1 gp    | M/R  | C/N   | 1D6      | Th, R                           |
| Harpoongun    | 100 gp  | R    | N     | 1D6      | SL, UW, R                       |
| Jägersword    | 120 gp  | M    | C     | 2d12     | 2H, 3 slots, HE                 |
| Jägerraxe     | 100 gp  | M    | C     | 2D8/2D10 | 2H, 3 slots, HE, V              |
| Jägerhammer   | 100 gp  | M    | C     | 2D8      | 2H, 3 slots, HE, AP             |
| Jägerspear    | 5 gp    | M/R  | C/N   | 2D6      | 2 slots, HE, Th                 |
| Jägermusket   | 150 gp  | R    | N     | 1D10     | 2H, SL, AP, 2 slots, R          |
| Gunclub       | 100 gp  | M/R  | C/N   | 1D8/2D6  | 2H, SC, SL                      |
| Gunlance      | 1000 gp | M/R  | C/N   | 1D8/1D8  | 2 slots, HE, AP, SL             |
| Gunblade      | 500 gp  | M/R  | C/N   | 1D8/1d6  | SL                              |

**Arquebus:** A long gun, fires a lead ball with use of blackpowder, ignited by a matchlock 

**Musket:** A very long gun, fires a lead ball with use of blackpowder, ignited by matchlock or flintlock 

**Blunderbuss:** A short, thick barreled gun that fires grapeshot using blackpowder, ignited with a wheellock or flintlock.

**Pistol:** A small firearm that shoots a lead ball with use of blackpowder, ignited by wheellock or flintlock.

**Clay-Grenade:** A pot of fired clay full of blackpowder, ignite the match, count to three and throw

**Iron-Grenade:** A ball of iron filled with blackpowder, ignite the match, pray and throw. 

**Battle Hammer:** A one handed hammer of war to bash and pierce armor

**Polehammer:** A hammer with a pointy beak on a long shaft to defeat armor

**Trident:** A weapon for fishing

**Harpoon:** A weapon for whaling with vicious bars to prevent pulling out

**Harpoongun:** A spring-loaded or pneumatic gun that can shoot harpoons underwater

**Jägersword:** Too huge to be called a sword, a lump of iron 

**Jägerraxe:** a massive yet short axe to fight monsters

**Jägerhammer:** a giant warhammer to defeat armored monsters 

**Jägerspear:** a huge spear to hunt monsters 

**Jägermusket:** A huge musket that shoots iron harpoons with attached rope 

**Gunclub:** A stubby gun loaded with grapeshot, formed into a sturdy club

**Gunlance:** A heavy lance with a large-calibre gun next to the blade

**Gunblade:** A sword with a gun parallel to the blade

**Powder and Shot:** Ammunition for Firearms, 20 shots take 1 slot and cost 1gp