Runepowder and the Modern Gnome

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This book is redolent with the enticing smell of paper and ink.

Properties

  • Books
  • Rarity: Common
  •  Weight: .5 kg / 1 lb
  • Price: 14 gp


Where to find

The Rivington General X: 1 Y: -56

Text

This extremely wordy treatise supposes about the possibility of recreating runepowder, the mythical explosive documented in gnomish legends.]


I ask my most renervated and prodigiously talented audience to suppose the following: Runepowder as we know of it may no longer exist at our particular space-time-environment, but it most absolutely exists within our minds, both singular and collective. Ah! Now we've landed upon a fascinating bit of philosophy. Think (ha!) of the following formula: thought + behaviour = action. Then why the following? Thought + idea = action. With our knowledge of runepowder's unique properties, why can we - the reader, myself, anyone with an interest, really, not manifest that which we can imagine?


Consider the following...