Steam Pistol (3.5e Equipment)

Steam pistols are primative single-shot pistols with wide barrels and complex tubes and gears. They drive their projectile via a pressurized blast which is held when the gun is cocked. It uses sling ammunition for bullets, making finding ammo easier but the shots are large, heavy, and clumsy to use. Rocks and other improvised ammunition can be used, but at a -2 penalty to attack rolls and on a natural 1 the gun is damaged, taking its normal weapon damage and bypassing its own hardness. Since the gun is projecting it and it is not being thrown as a sling would, you do not add your strength modifier to damage.

Steam pistols are the lightest of the easy-to-use steamgun weapons. Loading a steam pistol is a move action that provokes attacks of opportunity. You can shoot, but not load, a steam pistol with one hand at no penalty. You can shoot a steam pistol with each hand, but you take a penalty on attack rolls as if attacking with two light weapons.