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Message: <blockquote data-quote="David Howery" data-source="post: 5549386" data-attributes="member: 17239">yes, it does stink something awful.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I generally restricted available guns to the earliest kinds... arquebuses and the like.  I did allow crude pistols which doubled as emergency clubs.  Of course, these were all matchlocks with the joy and wonder of long burning slowmatches.  This is one type of firearm I have no experience with (how about you?), but from what I've read, reloading them in the heat of combat was kind of like playing a piano in the back of a moving van... plus, you had to be careful to keep hot coals around to light them, and be careful not to spill powder on the slowmatch, and if the party wasn't going to be in combat for a long time, they had to extinguish the slowmatches or they'd burn away (usually right before the giants jumped them; I'm sadistic that way <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).  I modified the misfire table to 'only happens on a natural 1', and drew up a list of about 10 different things that could happen, with only one of them being 'blowed up in yur hand!".  The rest were things like 'your match went out', 'hangfire', 'the primer powder fizzled', etc.  I've had some of these happen to me when I was target shooting, and in my experience, a 1 in 20 chance isn't so wrong.I've never tried a Brown Bess, or any musket, for that matter.  My favorite is my replica long rifle... it's just purty all over  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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