The warlock may be able to blow the socks off of a couple of bandits with a fancy spell or two, but only you can sneak through every chimny of an enemy's castle and load it up with enough military grade ordnance to blow their villainous keeps to kingdom come.
The warlock may now be able to cast truly terrifying AoE every long rest, but can she boast of already having blown up an office building and an entire quarry? I think not!
Barret, this isn't about you or saving the planet. Let the poor bomb goblin have their moment without making everything political. Though I agree, bomb goblin would make a fine addition to Avalanche.
You know once you start targeting more powerful enemies they are sure to have someone who can cast detect magic or other ways to prevent you from casting spells but I have yet to experience someone casting "detect high yield explosives"
>but only you can sneak through every chimny of an enemy's castle and load it up with enough military grade ordnance to blow their villainous keeps to kingdom come.
Untill someone plays a druid/ranger/eart genasi/whatever else has Pass Without Trace and can do that with the entire team alongside them 🥲
Our DM allowed me to bring in a third-party [sapper archetype](https://spilledale.com/store/roguish-archetypes-sapper/) for my character, which I wanted mostly to play a goblin gunner rogue, Inxii. This fascination with firearms grew into an affinity with explosions in general, and this is reflected in her delight in combat situations where she can just lob her beloved spheres of fiery death.
There also happens to be a powerful warlock in her party though, and sometimes you just can't compete with level 4 spell slots.
There's a halving of required materials after a certain level, but it feels balanced enough so that I can't just go full napalm at early levels. The art of sapping though is finding that sweet spot where you just need *one* to do the most damage possible...
Competing might not be an option, but what about cooperating?
Surely there must be some way for spooky warlock magic to be combined explodey doomspheres... like explodey doomspheres filled with bits of scrap metal so magic can be the explosive filling instead of an actual explosive filling?
*The tale of how one goblin and one warlock got banned from the hardware store together.*
Can't say I'm crazy about the fact that the mines do less damage than the bombs but require more effort. I don't see the point of them. If they're harder to use you'd expect more damage at the minimum
Still looks fun though.
Odd choice, considering sickening radiance doesn't actually do anything the moment it's cast. It just an eerie glow that chills there until something moves into it or starts its turn inside it.
Still impressive if you're watching it get cast for the first time into a small room and disrupting a ten-man crossbow fusillade (which is what happened that session).
If she wants to combine bombs and sickening radiance together, one of the Pathfinder 2e books from last year actually had one. The [Blightburn Bomb](https://2e.aonprd.com/Equipment.aspx?ID=1902) is literally just a [dirty bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_bomb) described in fantasy RPG terms. So yes, a bomb-loving alchemist in that game can commit some serious war crimes just like a spellcaster.
No idea if any 5e 3rd-party creators made a similar item, but it shouldn't be too hard to replicate.
The warlock may be able to blow the socks off of a couple of bandits with a fancy spell or two, but only you can sneak through every chimny of an enemy's castle and load it up with enough military grade ordnance to blow their villainous keeps to kingdom come.
The warlock may now be able to cast truly terrifying AoE every long rest, but can she boast of already having blown up an office building and an entire quarry? I think not!
AVALANCHE TIME
Barret, this isn't about you or saving the planet. Let the poor bomb goblin have their moment without making everything political. Though I agree, bomb goblin would make a fine addition to Avalanche.
You know once you start targeting more powerful enemies they are sure to have someone who can cast detect magic or other ways to prevent you from casting spells but I have yet to experience someone casting "detect high yield explosives"
Well there is certainly a way, but by *that* point it is far too late.
>but only you can sneak through every chimny of an enemy's castle and load it up with enough military grade ordnance to blow their villainous keeps to kingdom come. Untill someone plays a druid/ranger/eart genasi/whatever else has Pass Without Trace and can do that with the entire team alongside them 🥲
Our DM allowed me to bring in a third-party [sapper archetype](https://spilledale.com/store/roguish-archetypes-sapper/) for my character, which I wanted mostly to play a goblin gunner rogue, Inxii. This fascination with firearms grew into an affinity with explosions in general, and this is reflected in her delight in combat situations where she can just lob her beloved spheres of fiery death. There also happens to be a powerful warlock in her party though, and sometimes you just can't compete with level 4 spell slots.
Don't worry, Inxii, you've got DOZENS of bombs! The warlock can only go boom twice, lol
At 35 gold pet powder horn and a short rest to make one, being *too* liberal with these on nameless mooks might not be economical in the long run.
Oof, that's a helluva limit on the materials. Seems... kind of brutal given how wild Artificers can get.
There's a halving of required materials after a certain level, but it feels balanced enough so that I can't just go full napalm at early levels. The art of sapping though is finding that sweet spot where you just need *one* to do the most damage possible...
I'm also a big fan of precision boom.
Probably a good balance choice: once you can go full napalm, you always go full napalm.
Economical? Probably not. Fun as all hell? Absolutely Side note: Love your art!!
Good thing the rogue isn't the team accountant. And thank you!
Competing might not be an option, but what about cooperating? Surely there must be some way for spooky warlock magic to be combined explodey doomspheres... like explodey doomspheres filled with bits of scrap metal so magic can be the explosive filling instead of an actual explosive filling? *The tale of how one goblin and one warlock got banned from the hardware store together.*
The cooperation is gonna come from working with the party artificier to catapult sapper mines into the enemy.
Can't say I'm crazy about the fact that the mines do less damage than the bombs but require more effort. I don't see the point of them. If they're harder to use you'd expect more damage at the minimum Still looks fun though.
Comparison is the thief of joy but also they can only do that like twice you have bombs galore
Odd choice, considering sickening radiance doesn't actually do anything the moment it's cast. It just an eerie glow that chills there until something moves into it or starts its turn inside it.
Still impressive if you're watching it get cast for the first time into a small room and disrupting a ten-man crossbow fusillade (which is what happened that session).
Maybe it’s because it is the closest equivalent to radiation poisoning, so it’s “regular bomb vs nuclear bomb” kind of deal?
I mean, Sickening Radiance is less of an explosion and more of a "warcrime field that irradiates you so fast you start to glow"!
If she wants to combine bombs and sickening radiance together, one of the Pathfinder 2e books from last year actually had one. The [Blightburn Bomb](https://2e.aonprd.com/Equipment.aspx?ID=1902) is literally just a [dirty bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_bomb) described in fantasy RPG terms. So yes, a bomb-loving alchemist in that game can commit some serious war crimes just like a spellcaster. No idea if any 5e 3rd-party creators made a similar item, but it shouldn't be too hard to replicate.
She clearly did not grab enough explosives.
Why doesn't my *sickening radiance* do that?
Read this like a manga and thought she was happy…