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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5373353" data-attributes="member: 6957">My favorite periods for gaming are the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - the so-called Age of Reason.Magic is becoming a science - rules are being codified. Arcane magic is not sanctioned by the Faith, though one major church does License it (think Papal indulgences), which leads to frictions between the faiths. (Including the spread of a fictional book titled De Re Magica)Science is also becoming a science - the rules of observation propounded by Thales are coming into play. Experiment is becoming a matter of proof. And the printing press has given birth to the multiple record and the cross reference. Practices once kept as trade secrets are now being spread and utilized over a wide are (including the real book De Re Metallica).Gunpowder is well understood, and has become a martial proficiency, but tactics have not yet fully caught up with the ramifications (units of handgunners thirty ranks deep...), but new schools of warfare are being born, allowing smaller armies to stand off against larger but less efficient ones (think the Dutch schools of warfare).I lean toward short ranged, high damage gonnes, without the armor penetration that some insist on (crossbows were actually better at that then guns, so good that they were forbidden by the church). Handgonnes were faster than crossbows, but less accurate at range, and poor at piercing armor. So I do like guns in my fantasy, but run with an atypical period.The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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