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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7446719" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>I've toyed with the idea of guns in my home campaign which in many ways is Eberron-esque as far as how do you advance beyond the standard pseudo-medieval world.</p><p></p><p>However, if you look at the history of guns, I'm not convinced in a world where there's magic they would ever be invented. Sure it's easy to look at a machine gun and say "who wouldn't want that" but what people forget is that it took hundreds of years to get to that point. Early guns were little more than flash-bangs designed more to frighten than to be real weapons. In addition, cannon were around for quite a while before any hand-held weapons. Gunpowder existed for much of what we consider the "medieval", and was contemporaneous with full plate armor. It was also quite expensive and difficult to create.</p><p></p><p>So how did it become more common? Well, <em>that</em> required advances in basic chemistry and better ways of producing the components in large quantities. But what if those advances in chemistry were not possible because "magic"? Or what if the early artillery could be easily defeated by simple spells? Gunpowder is quite volatile and set off by a simple spark. It's not too hard to imagine creating a simple spell "spark" that could be used against the enemy to ignite their boom-powder if it became a threat.</p><p></p><p>So early gunpowder weapons would be less effective than fairly common war magic while being easily defeated and expensive in my world. Since early gunpowder based weapons were never perfected, modern firearms never had a chance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 7446719, member: 6801845"] I've toyed with the idea of guns in my home campaign which in many ways is Eberron-esque as far as how do you advance beyond the standard pseudo-medieval world. However, if you look at the history of guns, I'm not convinced in a world where there's magic they would ever be invented. Sure it's easy to look at a machine gun and say "who wouldn't want that" but what people forget is that it took hundreds of years to get to that point. Early guns were little more than flash-bangs designed more to frighten than to be real weapons. In addition, cannon were around for quite a while before any hand-held weapons. Gunpowder existed for much of what we consider the "medieval", and was contemporaneous with full plate armor. It was also quite expensive and difficult to create. So how did it become more common? Well, [I]that[/I] required advances in basic chemistry and better ways of producing the components in large quantities. But what if those advances in chemistry were not possible because "magic"? Or what if the early artillery could be easily defeated by simple spells? Gunpowder is quite volatile and set off by a simple spark. It's not too hard to imagine creating a simple spell "spark" that could be used against the enemy to ignite their boom-powder if it became a threat. So early gunpowder weapons would be less effective than fairly common war magic while being easily defeated and expensive in my world. Since early gunpowder based weapons were never perfected, modern firearms never had a chance. [/QUOTE]
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