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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9186594" data-attributes="member: 6790260">So I have been apprised.A plausible reason gun technology would advance more slowly, but not (IMO) a reason why it would be totally ignored. Many settings, mostly because sci-fi and fantasy autbors have no sense of scale, have remained in pseudomedieval stasis (with select Renaissance developments like plate armor, rapiers, and advanced shipbuilding) for thousands of years. One would expect that guns of all kinds—cannon, long gun, handgun—would be adopted by societies that have any disadvantages when it comes to magic, be it outright inability, education access, infrastructure limits, societal inhibition/prohibition, or some other thing. Indeed, I could see cantrips like fire bolt actually accelerating the development of firearms in societies that don't have such ready access to magic.More or less, the only way this works to keep guns almost totally out of the picture is if magic is widespread in all cultures and a lack of magic-users never results in a meaningful disadvantage in wartime. That could happen, but would be at least a somewhat unusual state of affairs. More plausible that at least one culture is at magical disadvantage and grabs onto other solutions when they become evident, even if they have other risks or costs. One of the biggest reasons guns caught on IRL, other than that we finally developed the chemistry and metallurgy knowledge to make them, was that a longbowman was better in nearly every way...but you could train hundreds to use guns passably in a tiny fraction of the time. That sounds highly analogous to "magic is superior to guns and artillery in almost every way...but it takes years to teach a new mage." A society with an economic or (specifically magic) educational disadvantage has big, big reasons to explore technologies that bridge the gap.If the gods ban a combat technique, tool, or skill because it is "dishonorable," why do they not ban other techniques that hinge on dishonorable conduct? At the very least it is something that warrants explanation.Wouldn't be surprised tbh.</blockquote>

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