Lancing Riolo

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(( I just though tot do this because i wanted SOME weapon advances over the more that 100 year lifespan that is LOTC, opinions and comments are welcome, Enjoy!)) *Lancing is sitting by the low coals of the fire just outside of his barracks, experimenting with a thin metal rod, He finds a stone dowel and carefully uses small blasts of miniature arcane missiles to wind the white-hot rod around the stone. Satisfied, he dunks it in a bucket of water and goes to bed, In the morning he wakes up and checks his creation, he shakes off the water droplets and eases the bent rod off the stone. He bends the two ends of the rod and they resist but give slightly, Lancing does a double take and bends it again, it resists but gives slightly again. He then grabs a bit of bread from the nearby table and puts it on the end of the contraption and bends it back, he releases and watches as the bread goes flying across the room….. “Oi! SAM!” He yells at his sleeping friend to no effect. Lancing sighs and aims a peice of bread at Sam’s mouth. The projectile hits on the target, and wakes up Sam who now has a piece of bread stuck in his throat. “Wot the hell Lancing?!’ He yells at his comrade, slapping him upside to head. “Look at this,” Lancing sends a peice of bread across the room, “what…. is that?” Lancing fiddles with the contraption which creates a type of ‘spriong’ sound: “A, Spring.”

I've recently been thinking on how long LOTC has existed and what advances weapons technology should have, especially considering the influence of magic in the world. I would think that there would already be gunpowder or some sort of explosive or even gas/oil. I hope that we would be able to implement grenades of explosive tipped ranged ammunition for bows and crossbows. Maybe even wrist mounted bows or crossbows. Also, i would think that by now people would understand that metal conducts electricity and an electric mage would wield a metal rod as a weapon. I hope that this idea helps someone reconsider implementing this. -Nexus