Weird & Wonderful Weapon Hack 2.0: Phantasmos Version

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Light

1d4, +1 AB, One-handed, Concealable as free feature

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Medium

1d6, One-handed

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Heavy

1d8, Two-handed

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Animal

Made of or contains elements of animal life (e.g. bone, teeth, blood, skin or muscle tissue) or is a living animal.

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Anthropomorphic

Has features vaguely reminiscent of a humanoid face or humanoid body part.

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Bronze

Made of bronze. On a critical fail (natural 1 on 1d20) against stronger metals (such as iron or steel), it breaks.

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Carbon

Made of a carbon.

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Colorful

Is an unusual color.

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Cooking

Designed in some way for cooking (e.g. butcher knife, paring knife).

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Crafting

Designed in some way for carpentry and other crafting (e.g. screwdriver, saw)

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Devil-Water

Requires devil-water.

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Edible

Can be eaten.

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Electrical

Requires electricity.

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Farming

Designed in some way for farming (e.g. rake, spade, shovel).

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Fragrant

Smells good.

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Fungal

Made of or contains elements of fungal life or is a living fungus.

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Glass

Made of glass. On critical fail (natural 1 on 1d20) it shatters. Against any surface harder than a human body, this increases to 1-4 on a 1d20.

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Greasy

Is always greasy. On critical fail (natural 1 on 1d20), is dropped.

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Iron

Made of iron.

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Laser

Made of hard light or projects beams of light.

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Loud

Produces annoying noises when carried; painfully loud when used.

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Ornamental

As Stylish or Unique Appearance, but not designed for practical use. On critical fail (natural 1 on 1d20), it shatters or breaks.

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Plant

Made of or contains elements of plant life or is a living plant (excludes normal Wood).

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Plastic

Made of hard plastic.

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Reflective

Reflects light and can be used as a mirror.

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Singing

Softly hums or unintelligibly sings. The tune never gets old. Knows when to be quiet... usually...

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Sonic

Made of hard sound or projects bursts of sound (not the same as Loud).

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Static Charge

Often builds up a mildly painful static charge (not the same as Electric).

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Steam-Powered

Requires steam.

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Steel

Made of steel.

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Sticky

Is always sticky.

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Stinky

Smells bad.

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Stone

Made of generic gray stone. On a critical fail (natural 1 on 1d20) against metals, it breaks.

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Tasty

Fun to lick.

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Ugly

Has an especially unattractive or even gross appearance.

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Unpalatable

Tastes especially bad.

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Weird

Has weird properties or a weird appearance (can be anything appearance-based on the table, or something not on the table).

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Whispering

Whispers unintelligibly when brought close to the ear.

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Wood

Made of wood (not the same as Elemental: Wood). Lightweight (half encumberance), but generally not good for cutting.

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Attached

Attached to gauntlet or armor, leaving hand free.

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Bonded

Weapon only usable by owner, cannot be removed from person without consent.

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Breaking

Can be used to target and break objects at no disadvantage.

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Chainsaw

Prereq: Devil-Water, Electrical, Steam-Powered, or Wavepunk. Has fast-moving serrations along a chain. As Breaking against anything softer than iron (or relative to what it's made from).

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Cold Iron

Made of Cold Iron. +1 AB and +1 DMG against Fey.

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Concealable

Can be hidden from view.

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Concussive

Creates a burst of sound or light on impact to deafen/blind/temporarily stun.

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Electric

Generates electricity.

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Elemental: Air

Has properties related to air (e.g. can subtly manipulate winds, harness electricity).

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Elemental: Earth

Has properties related to earth (e.g. benefits to mining).

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Elemental: Fire

Has properties related to fire (e.g. produces heat/light, can cause burning).

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Elemental: Metal

Has properties related to metal (e.g. benefits to blacksmithing).

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Elemental: Water

Has properties related to water (e.g. can extinguish fires).

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Elemental: Wood

Has properties related to wood/plants (e.g. benefits to gardening, nature traversal).

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Flexible

Whip or whip-like; Range (close), AoE (close), Stunning (binding), Unwieldy (-2 AB).

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Focused Area

AoE can be focused in a line, cone, etc. Each upgrade allows a different option.

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Focused Damage

AoE can be focused to only target specific creatures or objects. Each upgrade allows greater flexibility.

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Glowing

Can be used to provide illumination (as torch).

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Impacting

Each upgrade increases range of knockback (close, short, medium, long).

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Intoxicating

Eating or even tasting it can cause intoxication (poison saving throw).

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Invisible

Cannot be seen (even by owner/wielder).

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Large

Designed for large-sized creatures. Medium-sized creatures take -1 AB, small- creatures cannot use this weapon.

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Long Range

Can attack targets up to long range, -2 AB at close range.

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Magical

Has general magical properties.

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Medium Range

Can attack targets up to medium range, -1 AB at close range.

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Mobile

Can (slowly/clumsily) move autonomously when not in use.

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Multi-Colored

Is multiple unusual colors.

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Mutilating

Serration or other features cause sustained wounds and mutilation.

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Obsidian

Made of obsidian. As Glass, but +1 damage.

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Phlogisten

Glowing-hot from red to violet or white. Incredibly hot, but must be fed hot materials once a day or it will dissolve.

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Poisonous

Can cause poisoning.

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Prasium Crystal

Has a neon green crystal which emits small amounts of impossible light radiation.

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Reach

Can be used at close range or thrown at no disadvantage.

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Short Range

Can attack targets up to short range with no disadvantage at close range.

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Silenced

The weapon produces little to no sound on projection or impact.

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Small

Designed for small-sized creatures. Medium-sized creatures take -1 AB, large+ creatures cannot use this weapon.

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Stunning

Can be used non-lethally to incapacitate at no disadvantage.

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Stylish

Looks especially cool.

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Suppressing

Creates an obstacle to those in weapon range. -2 AB to anyone in range.

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Unique Appearance

May be a well known item or associated with a well-known person or faction.

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Aether Metal

A softly glowing and humming white metal. Detritus levitates around it. Does not count towards encumberance. Utilized by aether dragoons.

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Area of effect

May hit all targets in close range.

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Astrium

Prereq: Edged weapon. Can be used to access/enter the astral plane. Utilized by mystics and psycho-knights.

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Byzma Metal

While wearing Byzma metal armor, the weapon can be thrown/projected and will behave in a programmed way (e.g. boomerang)

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Deadly

Each upgrade increase attack die (up to d10).

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Elementa: Liquid Starfire

Has properties related to liquid starfire. Successful hit lowers target Dexterity by X for 1dX minutes (where X = number of applications of this quality).

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Elemental: Absolute Solid

Has properties related to absolute solid. Successful hit lowers target Charisma by X for 1dX minutes (where X = number of applications of this quality).

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Elemental: Anti-Information

Has properties related to anti-information. Successful hit lowers target Intelligence by X for 1dX minutes (where X = number of applications of this quality).

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Elemental: Impossible Light

Has properties related to impossible light. Successful hit lowers target Wisdom by X for 1dX minutes (where X = number of applications of this quality).

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Elemental: Null

Not is. Successful hit lowers target Strength by X for 1dX minutes (where X = number of applications of this quality).

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Fuchsia Phosphene Crystal

Can produce fuchsia light, which can be utilized by Fuchsia Phosphenomenologists.

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IFOD

Prereq: Light base form. Can be used as a wind instrument to produce inverse-frequency noise. Utilized by jammers.

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Impossigen

Filled with super-cold, lightweight impossigen. In normal physics -2 AB, under a-logical physics +2 AB.

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Masterwork

Each upgrade +1 AB.

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Nanotube Steel

Made of nanotube steel. This is an ancient, lost technique. As Masterwork 1, Deadly 1.

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Noxium

Filled with noxium gas. If punctured/released, +2 damage and 1 in 100 chance to induce anti-mutation. Starting ammo 10.

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Penetrating

Ignore armor. With second upgrade, ignore shields. AC otherwise still applies.

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Radio Transmission

Can be used as a radio. Utilized by priests of Lamarr and materialists to control ancient electronic devices and robots.

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Shoglite

Is actually a mimic. Can shapeshift into other items of a similar size. Treat additionally as Bonded.

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Spellbreaking

Can silence spells/spellcasters on successful attack.

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Wavepunk

Has keys, gears, knobs, and chains arranged and moving paradoxically. Utilized by materialists, zoomers, and phreakers to access wavespace.

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Siege

Can be used to break open structures.

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Meridian Metal

A soft metal, not good for attacking, but channels phreaking magic (contains a spell as a wand).

spell level

100

Sentient

Has some degree of sentience (cost 1 = impressionistic/animal-like, cost 2 = human-like, cost 3 = superhuman).

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