Best Black Powder Weapon rules

[Stormborn]

I have checked out a wide variety of material related to using fire arms in a campaign, everything from the stuff in the DMG to Iron Kingdoms to Sorcery and Steam. Has any one used blackpowder weapons in a game? If so what rule set do you use? Why?

thanks.

 

[Desdichado]

I've used, and plan to continue using, the rules in Green Ronin's Freeport book. These were also printed in the Dragon Magazine Annual for 2001? 2002? -- the d20 one, anyway, with the Wheel of Time cover art.

I like them because there is a carrot to use them -- they do good damage, but there is a several round reload penalty, they have the potential to explode, and they have a fair amount of variety. They add lots of flavor, are useful, but not too useful to the point that they are an automatic choice over non-blackpowder ranged weapons. I also have them (slightly modified, but really just to eliminate the Freeport specific terminology) on my OGL-compliant website for a campaign setting that has since morphed into something else right here so you can read them and judge for yourself.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I still have some misgivens about guns in my games, both are good and I have been going with the Freeport rules myself for the reason stated by Joshua Dyal, I may move to the Iron Kingdom rules when the setting comes out.

 

[Keith]

http://www.bizzaro-games.com/free_downloads.shtml

Bizzaro games has a free set of such rules available. Are they good? I don't know, have a look.

Cheers