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<blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 6070604" data-attributes="member: 2518"><p>One general problem when talking about firearms in D&D (and Co) is that pretty much all firearms get lumped together. Sure, the game did never differentiate between weapons all that well, but still you have different stats for a Roman Gladius than for a Gothic "Bastard" sword in addition to longswords, two handed swords which sometimes are split even further (Claymores, etc.). Also with bows you have short bows, long bows, composite bows etc.</p><p>But firearms? You have a pistol and a musket, no matter if it is a slightly advanced Ottoman arquebus of the 16th century or a British "Brown Bess" from the 18th century. Sometimes the arquebus and early rifles get also thrown into this single category. That makes it even harder to talk about firearms as a single weapon is supposed to represent the early guns taking put shots at knights who were more scared by the sound and smoke than by the bullet and also line infantry seen during the reign of Napoleon shortly before rifles became widespread.</p><p>It also doesn't help that most people do not know much about that time period. Many people don't know that knights and guns coexisted for a long time and that it was not guns who swept away knights from the battlefield (no, they were not armor piercing) but pikes and the cost of equipping pikemen versus knights. And about the period which followed they know even less. How many RPG players know for example that some nation already used rockets in the 18th century (or even a lot more early in case of the Chinese)?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Derren, post: 6070604, member: 2518"] One general problem when talking about firearms in D&D (and Co) is that pretty much all firearms get lumped together. Sure, the game did never differentiate between weapons all that well, but still you have different stats for a Roman Gladius than for a Gothic "Bastard" sword in addition to longswords, two handed swords which sometimes are split even further (Claymores, etc.). Also with bows you have short bows, long bows, composite bows etc. But firearms? You have a pistol and a musket, no matter if it is a slightly advanced Ottoman arquebus of the 16th century or a British "Brown Bess" from the 18th century. Sometimes the arquebus and early rifles get also thrown into this single category. That makes it even harder to talk about firearms as a single weapon is supposed to represent the early guns taking put shots at knights who were more scared by the sound and smoke than by the bullet and also line infantry seen during the reign of Napoleon shortly before rifles became widespread. It also doesn't help that most people do not know much about that time period. Many people don't know that knights and guns coexisted for a long time and that it was not guns who swept away knights from the battlefield (no, they were not armor piercing) but pikes and the cost of equipping pikemen versus knights. And about the period which followed they know even less. How many RPG players know for example that some nation already used rockets in the 18th century (or even a lot more early in case of the Chinese)? [/QUOTE]
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