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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NaturalZero" data-source="post: 7773302" data-attributes="member: 55705">The DnD "musket" is a thing that can be loaded in less than 6 seconds but you're right that in the 5e rules, X number of Magic Missile soldiers definitely outmatches X number of musket adversaries. The cost to damage ratio for arming a group of soldiers is still an issue though, and the DMG musket doesn't have to automatically out perform a specific wand to make it inconceivable as an experimental weapon in a world where people still shoot crossbows.In the fantasy DnD world of Eberron, with alchemy and metallurgy that can do things 21st century scientists can't, there are no rules for guns wearing out any more than magic wands though. This is a planet where things are made of adamantine, mithril, byeshk, bronzewood, sentria, mournload, crysteel, etc, etc, and we can't really compare the invention of some guy from 16th century Spain to those of magical, alchemical artificers who also whip up floating trains and magic airplanes. The Eberron gun would likely be compared to a real world firearm the way a bound elemental airship is to a Boeing 737; deconstructed and re-imagined with magical functions and construction. The idea that an esoteric artificer with access to physics beyond what a person on Earth can master coming up with a simple way to shoot pieces of metal as a weird military arms experiment seems pretty reasonable.Primitive guns mostly had issues because of poor metallurgy and chemistry though, which are potentially non-issues here. The Eberron artificer essentially starts out with far more powerful toolkit of tech to make something simple like a tube that contains and explosion and a piece of metal. I'm totally open to it guns that are powered by magic propulsion too, and that would probably work with the setting even better. As someone mentioned earlier, you could have the thunder cannon just be a spin-off of lightning rail tech. Conductor stones use an EMF to fling a big metal train through space and a small, enclosed conductor stone could fling a bullet like a rail gun.</blockquote>

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