alchemical silver paper cartridge


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How much does an alchemical silver paper cartridge cost?

I see the alchemical silver price modifier in the core rulebook, and the silver bullets in Ultimate Combat, but I want a paper cartridge loaded with a silver (or alchemical silver) bullet.

Also, how much are paper cartridges loaded with cold iron bullets?

Silver Crusade

Well a bullet is 1 gp and a paper cartridge is 12. A silver bullet is 25gp (which seems expensive to be honest) so I would say 36gp?

Which, I would like to point out, is the economic equivalent of shooting Bastard Swords at your enemies.


Silver: 14 by CRB, 36 by UC

Cold Iron: 13

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I had these questions just the other day.

I believe a Alchemical Silver Paper Cartridge would cost either 14 or 13 gold purchased, or 8 or 7 gold made by the Gunslinger. paper cartridges cost 12gp alchemical silver is +2 gold per round. And either subtract gold for the cost of the original bullet for the lower price or just leave it the higher price.

Cold Iron would cost 24/23 Gold per round purchased or 12 made.

Silver Crusade

Well the issue is that the silver bullet doesn't seem to use the alchemical silver rules.

A bullet costs 1gp, under the alchemical rules, a silver bullet should be 3gp. But instead, it's 25gp according to UC.


bigkilla wrote:

I had these questions just the other day.

I believe a Alchemical Silver Paper Cartridge would cost either 14 or 13 gold purchased, or 8 or 7 gold made by the Gunslinger. paper cartridges cost 12gp alchemical silver is +2 gold per round. And either subtract gold for the cost of the original bullet for the lower price or just leave it the higher price.

Cold Iron would cost 24/23 Gold per round purchased or 12 made.

Only the bullet would be Cold Iron, Bullets cost 1 GP each, doubled mean 2 GP

Alchemical Paper Cartrige: 1 GP (bullet) + 10 GP (powder) + 1 GP (?) = 12

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Elamdri wrote:

Well the issue is that the silver bullet doesn't seem to use the alchemical silver rules.

A bullet costs 1gp, under the alchemical rules, a silver bullet should be 3gp. But instead, it's 25gp according to UC.

Yeah, I believe my original quote is correct so a Alchemical Silver Paper Cartridge would cost 14 GP purchased 7 GP made. Maybe the 25 GP silver bullet in UC is a pure silver bullet.Although a pound of silver is only 5GP and 30 bullets weigh 1/2 pound. Quite the mark up.

Belle Mythix wrote:
bigkilla wrote:

I had these questions just the other day.

I believe a Alchemical Silver Paper Cartridge would cost either 14 or 13 gold purchased, or 8 or 7 gold made by the Gunslinger. paper cartridges cost 12gp alchemical silver is +2 gold per round. And either subtract gold for the cost of the original bullet for the lower price or just leave it the higher price.

Cold Iron would cost 24/23 Gold per round purchased or 12 made.

Only the bullet would be Cold Iron, Bullets cost 1 GP each, doubled mean 2 GP

Alchemical Paper Cartrige: 1 GP (bullet) + 10 GP (powder) + 1 GP (?) = 12

I see where I messed up there. So a Cold Iron Paper Cartridge would cost 13 GP purchased or 6 gold 5 silver made, just a little more than the silver.


Alchemical silver alchemical cartridge = 14 gp.

The 25 gp silver bullet in UC is different from normal alchemical bullets as they automatically confirm critical threats against lycanthropes. If you wanted a price for a lycanthrope-threat-confirming alchemical cartridge, I'd price it as 36 gp = 25 silver bullet + 11 (-> difference between paper cartridge and regular bullet)

Cold iron bullet, I'd say 13 gp = double price of regular bullet + paper cartridge components = 2 + 11
Actually doubling alchemical cartridge 12 gp for cold iron would be too insanely expensive.

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