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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 5377339" data-attributes="member: 2518">And why do they not care? Because they don't know it in the firs place so it doesn't seem odd when guns are missing. When you would remove bows or lances from a fantasy game the players certainly would notice it.Imo when more people would know that guns existed alongside knights and were in fact quite normal during the middle ages, people would notice it and react negatively when a fantasy game featuring knights also does not has guns.But as most people don't know the history of guns and in fact believe in the "urban myth" that guns replaced knights they don't think that anything is off when you have one and not the other and even more think, wrongly, that guns and knights can't exist alongside each other.Also there certainly are enough <a href="http://www.strategypage.com/cic/docs/cic173a.asp" target="_blank">myths</a> for guns too.For example the master gunner in 1437 who managed during teh siege of Metz to fire a bombard three times on a single day and manage to hit each time. He then had to go on a pilgrimage to Rome as he surely must be in league with the devil to achieve such a feat.Again, a large part of this is because people aren't knowledgeable about that time and mix the dark ages (10th/11th century) with the late mediveal (14th century). The myth of King arthur plays out even before that in late roman times. And the tech level of LOTR is mostly compareable to the dark ages (see Rohan) when there were no guns around.</blockquote>

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