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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 1858692" data-attributes="member: 1645">Agreed.  I had to throw the fear effect in though, because it's perhaps the chief advantage of early firearms.  In a fantasy world full of fireballs and giants, guns might not be exceptionally frightening -- or we should remember to treat magic and monsters as really frightening to normal troops.What in particular do you like about those rules, and what are you looking for in firearm rules?  I like the idea of crossbows and arquebuses being roughly equivalent -- the conquistadors, for instance, used both -- with longbows offering a much higher rate of "fire" (but only in the hands of experts).And I like the idea of early matchlocks burning their fuse continuously ("tssssss.....") -- but that doesn't require any rules.Agreed.</blockquote>