Musket

The dwarven gunslinger Angban wields a musket behind a tower shield.

A very heavy and inaccurate firearm, the musket requires two hands to aim. In addition to its accuracy issues, the musket also has a chance to misfire. The high damage potential is the main draw for this 9-pound, smooth-bored gun.

Variants

Most muskets have a single barrel, though more expensive and heavier double-barreled muskets offer more flexibility and firepower.

Their haft-like shape and weight inspires some to add melee features to the barrel, typically in the form of a bayonet, and more rarely with an axe blade to form an axe musket or hammerhead to form a warhammer musket.

The rifle improves on many of the features found in a musket.

On Golarion

Muskets are relatively common in Alkenstar and are wielded by its shieldmarshals and guards of Cloudreaver Keep.

Muskets were among the firearms seized from Dongun Hold by charau-ka of the Gorilla King, who trained several charau-ka to wield them as sharpshooters.

Some pirates employ musket-wielding snipers who operate from a ship's crow's nest.

The musket is the favored weapon of the daemon harbinger Cixyron.