ITT: cool stuff >fireworks being used as combat/utility items

>>47352431
Like how? What's the damage done by a firework?

>>47352557
Depends on the firework.

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/equipment---final/weapons/alchemical-weapons
This has a few for pathfinder

Fire, blinding, deafening, and dazzling effects, p cool.

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>>47352431
>rockets that are actually good in battle, but also have an impressive display like fireworks
Yes, those are swords fixed to the end of the rockets. Yes, that was historically a thing, and yes, it worked quite well in the 1700s and 1800s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysorean_rockets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congreve_rocket

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>>47352557
>Like how? What's the damage done by a firework?
Generally, the folks who were in charge of blackpowder were in charge of all its applications - incendary weapons, mines and cannons.

>>47353298
That's a shitty illustration. The surviving examples used the swords as sticks and developed their terror when they inevitably began to spin.

They basically launched a few hundred whirling, burning swords at the British and their troops.

>>47353852
>They basically launched a few hundred whirling, burning swords at the British and their troops.

I should start suggesting those rockets whenever we have one of those "I want interesting non-modern weapons" threads. Because that's freaking awesome.

>>47352431
I actually had the idea a while back to play as a rogue that bluffs the entire game that he's a wizard, with absolutely no magical talent.

He would hide fire crackers in his sleeves, and fire them like magic missiles, and all of his "magic" would just be smoke and mirrors and really good deception.
Never got a chance to play him.

>>47354741
I remember reading a webcomic with a similar premise, with the protagonist hiding some flamethrower in his robe and pretending to be a wizard. Side Quests, I think it was called.

>Fireworks deal light-based damage
>Fireworks thus deal extra damage to undead

Has anyone ever done this?

Signal rockets were absolutely a thing.

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>>47354688

Early blackpowder weapons were pretty fun as well, though those missiles don't really belong to that class.