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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 2307570" data-attributes="member: 14041">Guns that steal your soul, or maybe guns that are powered by your soul. Neat idea Strangemonkey....sorry Doctor Strangemonkey.  I also like the idea of monks who are the Watchers of the World, the check and balance against the guns and magic.I definetly think that the elite have to be both the makers of the guns and the users  of the guns.Right now I am picturing guns powered by soul energy, long gleaming barrels of metal etched with arcane lines of glowing energy.  A gem set in the base channeled through the barrel and activated by a small resonate hammer.  Pull the trigger and it goes off.  But the gem would have to be "charged" - perhaps through a long ritual that drains a point of CHA - and has a limited number of uses per day.  Damage could be boosted, probablly at the expense of the weapon and wielder, by spending additional points of CHA.  At the end of the day the wielder again conducts a ritual that allows for up to 2 spent points to be regained after 8 hours of sleep.  Don't know the rituals, or don't perform them, the spent points never come back.  The wielder grows more and more lifeless.  Once it drops below a certain point the person becomes a "souless one" or zombie.  But maybe there is a ritual to bond yourself with a gun or set of guns, you give up all your "soul energy" and empower the weapons forever, you CHA regrows, but you are never the same, souless and near immortal, and permanently evil.  A Gun Lich. (Edit: Or maybe you sacrifice CON instead, becoming a more traditional DnD Undead type.)But thats just me speculating like I do.  All of this is very helpful. So, real guns or magic guns or whatever, how do the elite stay elite?  How and why are guns not readilly available to the pesants?  What does this to society?</blockquote>

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