Cannons in D&D

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[Irreverent_Radiation]

So they essentially brute-forced a double-barreled cannon

[TheDrakeProjectTDP]

Artificer "repeating shot" would make this even more OP

[thod-thod]

Find Familiar/Pact of the Chain stocks going like crazy

[Deathnotefan]

The problem is you allowed multiple shots from the cannon to be fired in a single turn

It clearly has the loading property, meaning no extra attacks per turn

[Smeelio]

In the spirit of Bloodborne, this reminds me of that classic "wreck a fool with a Bone Ashed cannon" kill compilation from years ago

[rgubar]

In my setting you can have a big and heavy Harpoon Gun that deals a huge amount of damage but it's very heavy and noisy and you need to spend 2 actions to reload it. It's thought more to be used as a tool to reach places or pin boats rather than being used as a weapon. Also, my players know it's extremely powerful so they decide not to use it. But once, I was playing a Ranger and my DM gifted my this weapon, I didn't use it, until that particular moment I will always remember. I entered an ancient castle, I felt into some dark goo, and then, I started hallucinating. My character doesn't have much patience, so I started running and running until the bad guy who was controlling the hallucinations revealed himself and started talking about his bassic bad guy lore. But my character didn't want to hear it because he was tired, so I shot the guy with a crit harpoon and one-shoted him. My DM laughed so hard that he didn't care about my methods.

[gengarultimate]

I think this is amazing incentivise your players to come up with a genius play like this

[ilajoie]

I didn't expect to see Koshitan in one of these shorts

[Spiceodog]

I fully thought he was going to have an unseen servant load the cannon with its action

[Tommytuf]

I want this book to be in D&D Beyond so bad. so many good things.

[speculativemusings]

Pretty sure you can’t combine extra attack with action surge that way. You get a second action, sure, but you have to finish your first action before using it. In this instance, you get your cannon attack, followed by any extra attacks that you get, like throwing javelins or something, followed by your action surge’s second action, which is spent reloading the cannon for your next turn.

[gigabyteguru]

One thing that I did that worked well for firearms was using magic rules for them. Instead of attack rolls it is saving throws, with single projectiles having higher damage, but spread weapons dealing half damage even on successful saves, and reloading is treated in the same way as casting a ritual spell. It forced players to either fire and switch weapons, use a bayonet, or carry multiple firearms into battle.

This method let marital burn through legendary resistances, made guns a side grade to both bows and crossbows rather than an upgrade, and it also made it so that when I introduced cartridge rifles it basically made them into mundane legendary items. Because reloading only took a bonus action, or an attack. It also made ammo into an interesting resource on the trapdoor rifles because only one faction could produce the cartridges, so any use of the gun would be blamed on them and they knew it.

[Kairu]

If I gave it to my player, they would just use this cannon as melee weapon

[thetruthisathand]

That fella fired a cannon twice in 6 seconds

[Camoop]

I expected the use of action surge, I did not think about the using the second attack on the same turn though. Freaking brilliant.

[vividele]

Moments like these make for good memories

[VesselOfChaos]

You forget some dragonborns are able to pick up items heavier than cannibals with one hand so imagine a dragonborn just launching one cannibal after another at the big bad

[lunaghost]

Me with my gunslinger/artificer build, taking a violent repeating shot with action surge and extra attack.... when she get her hands on this canon, she will make happy gas mask noise.

[bobbob]

Combo with artificer for some repeating shot that doesnt need reloads and your set.

[stackup]

Wait wait wait. You guy that made the shadow options for the rogue!!!! Thats my favorite rogue sublcass!!!