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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 697428" data-attributes="member: 1879">GunsAnother thing to think about is that often times the use of firearms was improved by ancillary technology. The same flintlock might take 5 actions to load piecemeal, 4 if you had a powderhorn with a charge measure and 3 if you're using paper cartidges. Anyone can make a charge measure, you just need to think of it. A paper cartridge requires nitrated paper. So Gnomes for example, as natural alchemists, might be the first to develop paper cartridges and may hold that monopoly for a while. And  you might well see things like ducksfeet, pillbox guns and piano guns.  Not untill you have percussion caps do revolvers become practical, although you could do it with an enchanted trigger gun.Magic might also play in at the higher end of things. Consider some creative wizards revamping a stone golem into being a self crewed, mobile cannon. Yay grapeshot. Hell think of a shaped wall of force serving as the barrel for a cannon. Given it's immunity to physical force a high level wizard could conjure the equivelent to a 19th century train cannon. Who needs a fireball when you can lob a piece of metal the size of a car 20 miles?</blockquote>