Chopping wood?

Makes your wish you had aphantasia

If Distractible has taught me one thing, it's that chainsaws belong in crotches apparently

Seems kinda like pointing an "unloaded" gun at yourself.

For the purposes of safety, always assume the gun is loaded...and always assume a chains will be engaged.

A gas chainsaw has a centrifugal clutch, so if it was "stuck engaged" the chain would move with the starter cord. You'd know it before you gave it a real yank.

If you're starting with the choke engaged, it's possible the engine will idle at a speed high enough to engage the clutch and move the chain. 2-stroke engines aren't real anyway, they're bullshit wrapped in metal that works because the fossil fuel industry demands them to, so their behavior is entirely unpredictable and contrary to the operator's needs.

"As long as the safety is off it isn't really dangerous to give your kid a gun" 8 times out of 10 this will turn out fine, 1 times out of 10 you get a hole in your house, and 1 times out of 10 someone gets shot 🤷‍♂️

It's not the only thing that dropped

Both. I'm not super familiar with it because by the time they got around to releasing an artificer I was already waning in my 5e interest, so I'm going largely on memory of early drafts (Unearthed Arcanas) and general cultural osmosis.

Different subclasses or builds have different focuses. There's an alchemist subclass, a gunner subclass (like 2e's gunslinger), and one more like the inventor.