The Black Powder Armory
About This Book
Fifty-five weapons and nine armours across five centuries: the hand gonne and the matchlock, the flintlock pistols and boarding weapons of the age of sail, the revolvers and repeaters of the American West, and the trench gear of 1915. Twenty-five weapon and armour qualities, one of them new.
You get one shot. What you do next is the weapon. A flintlock fires once and takes two maneuvers to reload, so a pirate carries a brace of pistols and a cutlass, and a musketeer fixes a bayonet. Every lock in this book reloads at its own pace, from four maneuvers for a hand gonne to none for a lever-action repeater, and that pace is the history of the period.
This book stands alone. It fills the gap between The Ranged Armory, which stops before gunpowder, and The Modern Armory, which begins in 1939. It requires only the Exodus NDS core rules.
Carriage guns are out of scope. A ship's broadside, a field gun, and a siege mortar need a crew and a Universe's ship or siege rules. This book goes as far as the swivel gun on the rail.
Credits and Notices
The Black Powder Armory An Exodus NDS Sourcebook First Edition © 2026 Kaosweaver, Inc. All rights reserved.
Credits Writers and editor: Paul Davis Layout: Homebrewery
Rules. This book is a rules supplement for the Exodus NDS Core Rules, which are open under the ORC License. The supplement itself is not open: it is © 2026 Kaosweaver, Inc. Where it repeats a core rule, only the rule as written in the Core Rules is open.
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Also known as. The Also known as line under each entry names historical firearms of that type so a reader can recognise it. A name that is a trade name belongs to its maker and is used here only to describe the type.
A game book. Nothing in this book is instruction in the use, manufacture, or modification of any weapon or explosive.
Real-world references. This book names real products, makers, places, institutions, religions, historical people, and works so that readers know what is being described. They are named for identification and in a spirit of fiction and play. Their names, marks, and logos belong to their owners. No connection with, approval by, or endorsement from any of them is claimed or implied. Product names are used only to identify the kind of item. Nothing here shows or licenses any maker's logo or trade dress.
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