Apologies if the answers are obvious here. I'm going to be playing a gun wielder in an advanced firearms setting.. I'm pretty sure nobody in our group knows the firearms rules very well (not better than me anyway), I'd like to be sure of some things.
1. Advanced Firearms don't use bullets.... Ever. Right? They use metal cartridges instead. Are they similarly prohibited from using tracer bullets, adamantine bullets, silver bullets, and pitted bullets?
2. Can advanced firearms use alchemical cartridges? It seems like they would be able to, but if you compare say, the text on the Revolver (advanced) to the text on the pistol (basic) the Pistol specifically says you can use Alchemical cartridges, but the Revolver does not.
3. Not an ammo question, but does Amulet of Bullet protection cease to function against firearm attacks NOT targeting touch AC (if they were out of the range increment, for example)? Seems weird but RAW does suggest that is the case.
4. Another not related question, but if you don't have the Gunsmithing feat, is there any way to make your own ammunition other than to take the feat? Is there a craft (gunsmithing) that would suffice? We are playing in a Guns Everywhere setting so my gunslinger doesn't have gunsmithing. Really dont want to blow a feat on that, when it seems logically that I should be able to make my own ammunition already. Am I in the wrong here?
thanks again
-awp
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2) You cannot use Alchemical Cartridges with Advanced Firearms. Alchemical Cartridges are designed for muzzle-loading Firearms, and that's not how you load Advanced Firearms.
4) You can use Craft(Gunsmithing) to make Firearms and Ammunition, but the regular crafting rules would apply. It's a much better deal to just take the feat.
Would help you with 1) and 3) but will have to wait until later.
To pick up where Nefreet left off
1) They don't use bullets in the sense that you can't pull a lead ball out of your pocket and drop it in the barrel, but the metal cartridges come with a bullet. If you want to use tracer bullets, just bump up the price of the metal cartridge accordingly.
3) According to the text, it only works on attacks vs touch.