Editing Setting:Unified Setting/Guns (section)

===Goblin Firearms===

The idea of using an explosion to propel a projectile first came to the goblins. Goblin alchemists kept trying to find ways to enhance the rather weak sling. Eventually they created boom jelly, stuck it to the side of a rock, and put a piece of cloth around it. They lit the cloth, and in mid-swing the goblin wielder died of a rock to the face, which then exploded.

After further research with stones and explosives, the matchlock as we know it came into fruition.

Boom jelly is a variation of alchemist's fire, made with a mineral found only in the highlands of the Goblin Islands. It is a stable, water-proof, heat-triggered low explosive that the goblins use in the pistols and cannons of their hybrid merchant/naval/pirate fleet. They hold a monopoly on it and any goblin selling it to an outsider would be beheaded....after they were made an example of.

Goblin buccaneers carry as many as six pistols when they go into combat, but rely mostly on their cutlasses during battle. Ships of the goblin fleet sometimes carry cannon, but use them only against necro-ships and their zombie crew. Other vessels are far too valuable to fill with holes that might send them to the bottom.

Even though goblins will not part with boom jelly, two of their biggest trading partners were enamored with the potential and decided to replicate it.