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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 2307327" data-attributes="member: 6533">Well, if you're going that direction...What say firing gunpowder consumes a small portion of your soul or innate humanity.So you develop an elite who know how to use as little gunpowder as possible as effeciently as possible in a fight to counter an enemy's souless hordes of powder-zombies and mighty gun-liches.The elite are in turn watched by a strong church of gun forbidden clerics and monks.Unless you know the proper rituals you don't really want to use gunpowder because it can zombify you and even when you do you're still at risk.The horrible secret, of course, is that misuse of these rituals and gun-powder are precisely what have the chance of taking you down the road to being a gun-liche.  The monks exist primarilly as a means to hunt down nobles who have gone that route and to fight gun-liches when they actually show up inside the kingdom or on the front lines.The military rocks paper scissors of it is:nobles beat powder-zombies, gun-liches beat nobles, monks beat gun-liches, and powder-zombies beat monks.with the additional caveat that the church creates monks and nobles and the church needs peasants.  powder-zombies are created from peasants and liches need powder-zombies as long as there is a church to counter.It's a flexible enough formula that I think you can run it all sorts of different ways.Plus I really like the idea of gun-liches.</blockquote>