If you want to use the smoked tea as a meat rub, crush it into a fine powder and mix it with your other spices. On Oerth, smokepowder was an inert substance, not functioning until it was taken off the planet. [22] However, clerics of the Oerthian god of science, Murlynd, were capable of making smokepowder function by concentrating on it with their divine magic. [23] a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Davis, Tenny L. The Chemistry of Powder & Explosives (1943) Smokepowder was typically sold and carried within either small wooden powderkegs or in powder horns. [12] A pouch held enough for eighteen shots of an arquebus. [2] [3]

This was until the Time of Troubles in 1358 DR, when the craftsmen deity Gond was forced to wander Toril in a mortal avatar form and one day washed up on the shores of Lantan. In return for the people there sheltering his avatar, [27] [28] Gond revealed the secrets of smokepowder to the Lantanese, [28] including how to make reasonably safe and accurate firearms that utilized the substance. [29] Ed Greenwood (October 2012). Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms. ( Wizards of the Coast), pp. 125–126. ISBN 0786960345.Modern Smokeless Powder may have as much as a 30% higher energy content. Slow burning powders such as N570 have as much as 3.9 Megajoules per Kilogram (~1.3 Million Foot Pounds per Pound).

Note: this is usually methyl alcohol, which is toxic, so best to let it dry outside, or with plenty of ventilation. Following the destruction of Lantan during the Spellplague, many artificers considered the secrets behind smokepowder to have been lost. [38]Around 1372 DR, the city of Telflamm was considered a gateway for smokepowder and other eastern goods into the rest of Faerûn. [34] Around this time firearms were available throughout Faerûn [11] and many rulers viewed the Church of Gond with ire for having introduced them to the continent, seeing the weapons as a threat to their authority. [35] It wasn't long before rulers began putting stricter regulations in place for the substance. [36]

Smokeless powder requires two things to burn efficiently, heat and pressure. Without enough heat the powder will not ignite. If it does ignite is may burn slow or “Smoulder” before suddenly going off. This creates a “Hangfire”, ignition can be delayed by a few milliseconds or as long as 30 seconds or more. Using the correct primer for a load, is important to provide enough heat to ignite the propellent. Ossian Studios (April 2009). Designed by Luke Scull. Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate. Atari.

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Doug Hyatt (September 2011). “Gond's Way: Artificers of the Realms”. In Steve Winter ed. Dragon #403 ( Wizards of the Coast), p. 6. Pauli Kidd (November 1996). The Council of Blades. ( TSR, Inc.), pp. 30–31, 38, 44. ISBN 978-0786905317. Jeff Grubb and Ed Greenwood (1990). Forgotten Realms Adventures. ( TSR, Inc), p. 11. ISBN 0-8803-8828-5. Modern smokeless powder is produced in the United States by St. Marks Powder, Inc. owned by General Dynamics. [21] See also [ edit ]