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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 3881800" data-attributes="member: 3146">For starters, you probably need to decide what firearms rules you are using. For general D&D, I like Arcanis' rules for Altherian flintlocks. They are usable and the high crit multiplier combined with their increased threat range gives them one-shot kill potential at least for relatively low level characters.If you are going to do dueling, you should also incorporate some kind of a sense motive/bluff mechanic to see whether your opponent is shooting to kill or shooting to miss. In many duels--particularly in the 18th century, people intentionally shot wide. William Pitt's famous duel was such an occasion and some historians I've read (well, Winston Churchill at least) suggest that Alexander Hamilton had that intention when he fought Aaron Burr. (Burr did not have the same intention and shot Hamilton dead). The general reason for such behavior seems to have been that they felt that honor demanded a duel and that, if challenged, they could not refuse the challenge. On the other hand, they didn't want to kill their opponents. So, if they shot wide, they managed to satisfy both their honor and their conscience because they demonstrated that they weren't going to back down from a fight but still didn't end up killing anyone. Of course, as Aaron Burr (and later Andrew Jackson) demonstrated everyone didn't share that view.</blockquote>