Noon Bomb

Initially created as a bomb to be dropped at night, the noon bomb is also uniquely suited to be used against the drow, or any other foe that has ventured in force from the Underdeep to wage war upon the surface.

Ultimate Equipment Guide II

Author Greg Lynch, J. C. Alvarez

Publisher Mongoose Publishing

Publish date 2005

It shares the same alchemist’s fire and thunderstone core that other bombs have, but its payload is, like the midnight bomb, not intended to cause direct harm. Rather, the noon bomb has a payload of two dozen starstones packed inside it. When the bomb detonates, causing regular bomb damage, the starstones are flung outward from the blast, traveling from ten to 60 feet in a random direction from the point of detonation (Games Masters should roll 1d8 to determine the path each starstone follows).

The heat of the exploding alchemist’s fire ignites the starstones, bathing the area around the blast in bright light. With night’s concealment gone, this light can be used to aim other bombs, or it can be used as a target point for catapults and other siege engines. Noon bombs were initially constructed using sunrods, But once the construction of starstones was discovered. A bomb delivering a payload of sunrods is still possible, but less effective. The sunrods are ignited by the force of the bomb’s explosion, and are flung outward from the blast to a radius of from ten to 30 feet.

Noon Bomb: 450 gp; 35 lb.