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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rkanodia" data-source="post: 1534688" data-attributes="member: 11681"><p>In Spelljammer, firearms are common, but it's always fun to have technology be a dynamic sort of thing.  My campaign includes a gnomish scientist (who I was expecting to be a recurring cameo at best, but the players really took a shine to his 'blunt indignant genius' personality) who specializes in lightning and particularly the harnessing thereof.  Of course the science behind his lightning arc pistols is utter bunk, but I think it works better to embrace a Baroque-era understanding of it (i.e. electricity is a blue fluid suffusing all metals, only visible when it jumps from one to another) than to try and make a 'realistic' device.  He also provides a minor, somewhat comic tie to previous editions of D&D; he's continually searching for a large supply of electrum (which of course possesses beneficial properties for electrical devices, but only in its naturally-occurring form) which is now amazingly rare despite the 'legends' claiming that it was once so common that it was used for currency.</p></blockquote><p></p>