Item: Nightmare's Lament

TypeWeapon
Level6
Rarity
Uncommon
Base ItemRapier Pistol
CategoryMartial
GroupFirearm
Damage1d4 piercing
Price230 gp
UsageHeld in one hand
PublicationPathfinder Howl of the Wild

Ritually constructed from the bones of a nightmare, a nightmare's lament is a +1 striking rapier pistol. Thin wisps of dark smoke continually surround the red-flecked blade.


Activate—Fuming Cloak 2 (manipulate)

Frequency once per day

Effect For 1 minute, the nightmare's lament continually vents thick, black smoke that creates concealment in a 15-foot aura around the gun's wielder. The wielder of the nightmare's lament can see through this smoke. A creature that begins its turn in the area becomes Sickened 2 (DC 23 Fortitude negates) and is then temporarily immune to the sickness from the smoke for 1 minute. The wielder of the nightmare's lament, any creature currently holding its breath (or that does not need to breathe), and any creature immune to poison are immune to the aura's sickened effect but not the concealment.

Aura: Fuming Cloak


Craft Requirements The initial raw materials must include the rib bones and inner fire of a nightmare.


Trait Effects

Combination: Combination weapons combine the functionality of melee weapons and ranged weapons in unique or unusual ways. A combination weapon has a ranged form or usage and a melee weapon form or usage. The combination weapons table lists the ranged weapon statistics first and the melee weapon statistics indented beneath, just above the ammunition. Switching between the melee weapon usage and the ranged weapon usage requires an Interact action. However, if your last action was a successful melee Strike against a foe using a combination weapon, you can make a ranged Strike with the combination weapon against that foe without fully switching to the ranged weapon usage, firing the ranged weapon just as you hit with the melee attack. In this case, the combination weapon returns to its melee usage after the ranged weapon Strike. Since a combination weapon is one weapon with two usages, both usages share any fundamental runes. You can put a property rune on a combination weapon as long as it's appropriate for either of the two usages, but if only one of the usages meets the property rune's requirements, the effects of the property rune only apply for that usage. For instance, a _vorpal axe musket_ only applies the _vorpal_ property rune when you're using it as an axe. Due to their complexity, combination weapons can't have another weapon, such as a bayonet or reinforced stock, attached to them.

Concussive: These weapons smash as much as puncture. When determining a creature’s resistance or immunity to damage from this weapon, use the weaker of the target’s resistance or immunity to piercing or to bludgeoning. For instance, if the creature were immune to piercing and had no resistance or immunity to bludgeoning damage, it would take full damage from a concussive weapon. Resistance or immunity to all physical damage, or all damage, applies as normal.

Fatal: The fatal trait includes a die size. On a critical hit, the weapon’s damage die increases to that die size instead of the normal die size, and the weapon adds one additional damage die of the listed size.

Magical: Something with the magical trait is imbued with magical energies not tied to a specific tradition of magic. Some items or effects are closely tied to a particular tradition of magic. In these cases, the item has the arcane, divine, occult, or primal trait instead of the magical trait. Any of these traits indicate that the item is magical.


Critical Specialisation Effects

Certain effects can grant you benefits when you make a Strike with certain weapons and get a critical success. This is called a critical specialisation effect. The exact effect depends on which weapon group your weapon belongs to, as listed below. You can always decide not to add the critical specialisation effect of your weapon.

Firearm: The target must succeed at a Fortitude save against your class DC or be stunned 1.


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