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A pair of players of mine, a techno-wizard and a fire warlock want to collaborate on an item, a gun that shoots a stream of lava like a flame thrower.

Clearly the primary spell would be River of Lava, and one secondary spell could be something like Fire Gout to give it a firing range, but what other secondary spells do you think would be necessary? Also, since this is a significant alteration of River of Lava, how much damage do you think a blast should do? The spell normally does 2d6x10, but that's for a full emmersion and per round. I'm thinking it should probably still do some damage per round, since it's going to be hard to immediately get that lava off, but clearly less than the standard version of the spell. Thoughts?

Talavar wrote:A pair of players of mine, a techno-wizard and a fire warlock want to collaborate on an item, a gun that shoots a stream of lava like a flame thrower.

Clearly the primary spell would be River of Lava, and one secondary spell could be something like Fire Gout to give it a firing range, but what other secondary spells do you think would be necessary? Also, since this is a significant alteration of River of Lava, how much damage do you think a blast should do? The spell normally does 2d6x10, but that's for a full emmersion and per round. I'm thinking it should probably still do some damage per round, since it's going to be hard to immediately get that lava off, but clearly less than the standard version of the spell. Thoughts?

Check Rifts Australia. They have a gun in there that does basically the same thing.

If you have access to Hades, it tells you how much damage lava does per round. I believe its 2D6 until it cools or is wiped off. Either way, its not fun.

Talavar wrote:A pair of players of mine, a techno-wizard and a fire warlock want to collaborate on an item, a gun that shoots a stream of lava like a flame thrower.

Clearly the primary spell would be River of Lava, and one secondary spell could be something like Fire Gout to give it a firing range, but what other secondary spells do you think would be necessary? Also, since this is a significant alteration of River of Lava, how much damage do you think a blast should do? The spell normally does 2d6x10, but that's for a full emmersion and per round. I'm thinking it should probably still do some damage per round, since it's going to be hard to immediately get that lava off, but clearly less than the standard version of the spell. Thoughts?

Tack on TK as well and make it a "Lava Railgun" capable of 2D6x10 'bursts'?
Might need Impervious to Fire to protect the weapon and the holder from the heat, whichever design you use. Off hand for the Lava Thrower, I'd steal a page from my spray houserules and say Shooting wild penalty, 2d6 for 2d8 targets when waving it around, 2d6x2 for 1d8 target when waving across a narrower area. Bathe one target in a shower of molten lava and given 'em the full 2d6x10.