Dustriders
Volkner Forgeworks EF-34 Powered Pickaxe
Weapon
Common
Mods
Blade/Pick
Grip
Power Cell
Charges: 2x Your Proficiency Bonus
Special Maneuver
Overhead Swing - Do a 2-handed, downwards chopping attack with the pickaxe's main head, bypassing shield evasion bonuses, dealing 2d10 AP IV Piercing damage, targets struck with the pickaxe end must make a Constitution Saving Throw against DC = 8 + Strength Modifier + Proficiency Bonus or take 1d4 unmitigated bleeding damage. Once you have used this maneuver, you may use this maneuver again after the end of your next turn.
Shocking Strike - When you successfully make a melee Attack with this weapon, you can choose to expend one of its charges as a Bonus Action and deal an additional 1d10 Lightning damage.
Stunning Strike - Strike the target on the head with an overhead Attack. On a successful attack, the target must make a Constitution saving throw against a DC equal to 8 + Your Proficiency Bonus + Strength Modifier or be unable to move until the start of your next turn. The target, if it tries to make attacks, does so with disadvantage. Using this maneuver expends one charge and adds 1d10 Lightning damage to the base damage. Once you have successfully used this maneuver and the target fails its save, you may not use it again until you finish a Short or Long rest.
Special Properties
Armor Piercing IV
Digging Tool - Allows user to dig up resources or create holes.
Electric Shock - Prevents targets that receive Lightning damage from one of this weapon's charges from taking a Reaction until the start of your next turn.
Lighter - This weapon has a built-in electric lighter that can be used to ignite flammable objects, heat food, and acts as a dim light source, providing dim light in a radius of 10 feet.
Mining Equipment - Gives advantage on any checks to obtain materials from rocks.
Passive Recharging - On finishing a Long rest, this weapon regains all of its charges.
Weight: 9
Handling: Versatile (1-handed, 2-handed)
The Volkner clan needed a steady supply of equipment and due to supply line issues with mining equipment deliveries from other clans, invented the EF-34 Powered Pickaxe some 20 years prior to the Cataclysm. The EF stands for Elektrisch Flügeleisen, which literally translates to Electric Wing Iron in Kreusch-Czek on account of its two heads resembling a wing of sorts. A Volkner Forgeworks design, the EF-34 is built with adversarial encounters in mind, accounting for hostile wildlife and other denizens of The Deep. The electrified pick head affords a brief opportunity to escape in scenarios where gnashing teeth are too close for comfort. The diamond-tipped tungsten blade's tensile strength is exceptional for cracking the harder geodes and other rocks, and the additional shock creates fractures in porous minerals, but it is inadvisable to use the electric mode when attempting to manually extract Aetherion crystals. Its back head folds down for portability and converts the pick into a single-head. The back head functions primarily as a digging tool and can pick apart broken rocks or be used to pry open doors as well. When folded down, it also exposes a handy electric lighter which can be used to heat soup cans, ignite cigars, or even light kindling on fire. This feature is never enabled while the digging head is up and there's a safety switch at the base of the pick's haft.
| Type |
Damage |
Damage |
Range |
| Simple Melee |
2d8 / 2d10 |
Piercing |
Melee |
Weight: 9lbs
