Does anyone have any idea how much a broken firearm would cost for anyone but a gunslinger?

[Malik Gyan Daumantas]

Thc whole idea is to buy a scraped gun, say the character fixed it through the mending spell and got the ammo for it through some other means. would there be anything wrong with this?

[quibblemuch]

"Items with the broken condition, regardless of type, are worth 75% of their normal value." (Source)

[Mathmuse]

Malik Gyan Daumantas wrote:

Thc whole idea is to buy a scraped gun, say the character fixed it through the mending spell and got the ammo for it through some other means. would there be anything wrong with this?

I am amused that Malik Gyan Daumantas's avatar picture is Sanvil Trett from the Iron Gods adventure path, because this question came up in my Iron Gods campaign. The NPC Val Baine joined the party as a gun-toting bloodrager with cantrips (homebrew archetype, but also allowed by Paizo's Enlightened Bloodrager). Later at 5th level, she lost her pistol. The party had scavenged some broken pistols off of dead gunslinger enemies. She decided to build a working pistol from that scrap. She used her Craft(firearms) skill rather than her Mending cantrip, because she wanted a better pistol than a gunslinger's starting firearm.

The gunslinger's Gunsmith ability gives the resale value of the gunslinger's starting gun:

Ultimate Combat, Gunslinger wrote:

Gunsmith: At 1st level, a gunslinger gains one of the following firearms of her choice: blunderbuss, musket, or pistol. Her starting weapon is battered, and only she knows how to use it properly. All other creatures treat her gun as if it had the broken condition. If the weapon already has the broken condition, it does not work at all for anyone else trying to use it. This starting weapon can only be sold for scrap (it's worth 4d10 gp when sold). The gunslinger also gains Gunsmithing as a bonus feat.

4d10 gp averages to 22 gp to sell, and presumably 44 gp to buy, rather than 75% of a 1,000-gp weapon by the usual rules. However, your GM might declare that no such broken firearms are on the market. I made Val Baine wait till 3rd level to gain her first pistol.

Val Baine used Mending to repair her pistol after a misfire, which revealed a gap in the rules. A misfire renders a pistol broken but does not actually deal damage to it. I ruled that the Mending spells had to repair half the hit points of the pistol to remove its broken condition from misfire.