Limited initial ranged weapon innovation modifications


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Paizo Employee Software Architect

I've been playing a goblin inventor whose weapon innovation is a spoon gun. There are ten initial modifications to pick from, but seven of them are restricted to either melee weapons or simple weapons, leaving only three actually available. Two of those three involve granting the modular B/P/S trait, which the spoon gun already possesses, and the last one adds versatile B and non-lethal traits, a technical but uninspiring upgrade. One of the options adds non-lethal as an option that can be added or removed with the modular system, and the other allows the item to be packed down and smuggled more easily.

It just seems like ranged martial weapons with modular B/P/S get very little out of the basic modifications list for innovations. I guess I'll take Blunt Shot to save myself the interact action whenever I need bludgeoning.

I'm mostly just wondering if I'm missing something, or if one or more of the options are way better than I'm recognizing.

Horizon Hunters

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I had the same trouble theorycrafting an Inventor with a Firearm, a combination that I assumed would be forefront in people's minds.

I'm putting that concept on hold until another sourcebook comes out. Or, my backup idea is to go with Construct Innovation (as a mount) and just use an unmodified firearm.


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Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber
Copper-63 wrote:

I had the same trouble theorycrafting an Inventor with a Firearm, a combination that I assumed would be forefront in people's minds.

I'm putting that concept on hold until another sourcebook comes out. Or, my backup idea is to go with Construct Innovation (as a mount) and just use an unmodified firearm.

yeah guns and gears is built as two completely seperate books that do not refrance each other at all, as such inventors have zero support for firearms, and do not have access to any of the new weapon traits they bring to the table.

Liberty's Edge

I've noticed the very same thing and have to agree with Kekkres, the book feels much more like Guns OR Gears to me.

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