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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tiew" data-source="post: 1557657" data-attributes="member: 12604">Humanophile, as far as I understand the advantage of firearms was that it was much easier to train people to use them. I may be wrong, but I think that in order to use a longbow you had to start training when you were young. With firearms the most important thing you needed to be able to do was march in a line, which you could teach a peasant to do in a few months. I think firearms lead to much larger armies filled with conscripts who needed less training than earlier warriors.Keep in mind, even an early gun that you would be lucky to hit a haystack with could be intimidating if fired by a thousand people standing shoulder to shoulder.I guess that's why I wouldn't want to see characters using guns in my D&D game. I think they're weapons for soldiers not warriors, if that makes any sense. If someone wanted to use one I guess I'd let them, but they'd probably end up only shooting once and missing every combat.(People who know more history feel free to correct me about this. It's been over 5 years since I read that book on the evolution of warfare. <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>