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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3636806" data-attributes="member: 3649">The thing is, it's still just terminal velocity, which ain't all that great. the terminal part in that means that it stops accelerating after a short period and never goes any higher. It would be no different than teleporting a bunch of iron spheres up a couple hundred feet and letting them rain down on the enemy. It would do some damage of course and people hit by them would probably die, but it's not 'knocking down a castle wall' damage. Even a catapult imparts more energy to a rock than merely dropping it.(I'd have a table with comparisons but apparently 'cannonballs' are used for every physics experiment example on the web, and I'm not wading through 15+ pages to find out what the actual muzzle velocity of a cannonball was). The gun example is the same thing; it would be like you dropped a little lead ball on them from the top of a building. It might sting a lot, but probably wouldn't do much damage at all. It would actually be better to throw the bullet at them if I remember correctly.Back on topicNow, one thing I seem to remember - and this is from a long time ago so I might be getting the facts wrong - is that the gun really only started to take off as a really useful weapon of war once we invented the concept of interchangeable parts. It was a huge advantage to take my Boston-made gun into a gunsmith in Charleston and be able to buy a new trigger off the shelf so to speak.If I remember correctly - and I wish Hellcow were still in the thread to correct me if I'm wrong - Eberron, for all the mention of factories and the like, has not invented two key things: The assembly line and the concept of interchangeable parts. Everything from swords to airships is still made by crafters. There might be a lot of them working in series sometimes, but each item is still technically unique. A gun made by one guy in Sharn would have to be taken back to that same guy for repairs. This is another reason guns are so expensive when they first start out.</blockquote>

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