Reloading Hands and Dragoon Musket


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Scarab Sages

How would the spell reloading hands interact with a Dragoon Pistol or Musket? Would it conjure/load a full Dragoon Cartridge?

Scarab Sages

Anybody have thoughts on this?


I had to go to the Archives of Nethys to find out what a Dragoon cartridge was. "These clips of alchemical cartridges hold three bullets and fit the slot of either the dragoon musket or the dragoon pistol. They allow the wielder of those firearms to fire up to three shots in quick succession without the need to reload. Once the cartridge is spent, reloading another dragoon cartridge takes a full-round action,..."

Reloading Hands should load a dragoon cartridge, since that is the ammunition that that weapon takes. The only problem is that I doubt the Reloading Hands will load the firearm while it contains a partially used cartridge; instead, it will wait until all three bullets are used up. Thus, you might have turns during which the reloading hands do nothing. On the other hand, if the shooter shoots multiple shots per turn and runs out of bullets before he runs out of attacks, Reloading Hands could reload during the middle of the full attack with no loss of attacks.

Scarab Sages

Sorry. I should have posted a link to the item.

I would be fine with it working like that. With the Musket, you can never get the reload time shorter than a standard action, since it doesn't work with Musket Master's ability explicitly, and Rapid Reload only makes a two-handed firearm a standard action. So being able to reload a cartridge of three shots for free would be a big boost.

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