Lesser Fireball Launcher (3.5e Equipment)

A long tube of metal, this weapon is made much like the Fireball Launcher, although of much shoddier construction.

Summary::This gun fires weak fireballs. These fireballs function like a fireball spell cast by a level 2 Wizard, albeit with half the range, using the firer's Dexterity modifier instead of Intelligence for determining the save DC, and treating the spell as a level 1 spell. Nonproficiency with the Lesser Fireball Launcher reduces the Save DC by 4. Proficiency with the Fireball Launcher also grants proficiency with the Lesser Fireball Launcher. Although it is technically a magic item, firing it is an attack action that is as easy as just pulling the trigger.

Whenever a Lesser Fireball Launcher is fired, there is a 20% chance that it will malfunction and explode, making the fireball's area of effect be centered on the firer. The fireball ignores the Lesser Fireball Launcher's hardness, but it is not automatically destroyed.

Lesser Fireball Launchers contain 1 shell at a time. Reloading the Lesser Fireball Launcher is a full-round action. Shells for the Lesser Fireball Launcher are oblong glowing orange shapes which weigh 2 lbs each and cost 12.5 gp and 1 xp to craft (so they cost 25 gp to buy with standard pricing).

Moderate evocation; CL 3rd; Craft Magic Arms and Armor; fireball; cost to craft: 875 gp, 35 xp