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<blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3326141" data-attributes="member: 4134">Yeah! Wash the blood away and start using them&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> The thing about a gunne is this: While an experienced wizard will do more damage with his magics, you don't have to be an experienced wizard. You don't have to be a wizard at all! That's why some wizards actually fear gunnes (and gunpowder): They put the power of a wizard into the hands of someone who never learned to wield that kind of power - and the responsibility this sort of power brings.That's one reason for people to invent, produce, or trade in guns. They're a sort of equilizer. Those magelords might hog the arcane power and forbid the masses to learn it, but with those gunnes the masses could strike back.The other thing is dislike for magic, or sheer love for invention, devices, crafts, and the like. Take Gond - the Faerûnian God of Craft, Inventions, and the like - for example: He's always eager to prove that his mechanical devices can compete with magic. It was him who, during the Time of Troubles, appeared in Lantan as a gnome and taught his faithful followers the secret of gunpowder. The Lantanese rock gnomes and humans have been making gunnes ever since. They really won't replace magic, they won't be wide-spread, remaining but a novelty. But they won't go away either.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kae'Yoss, post: 3326141, member: 4134"] Yeah! Wash the blood away and start using them :p The thing about a gunne is this: While an experienced wizard will do more damage with his magics, you don't have to be an experienced wizard. You don't have to be a wizard at all! That's why some wizards actually fear gunnes (and gunpowder): They put the power of a wizard into the hands of someone who never learned to wield that kind of power - and the responsibility this sort of power brings. That's one reason for people to invent, produce, or trade in guns. They're a sort of equilizer. Those magelords might hog the arcane power and forbid the masses to learn it, but with those gunnes the masses could strike back. The other thing is dislike for magic, or sheer love for invention, devices, crafts, and the like. Take Gond - the Faerûnian God of Craft, Inventions, and the like - for example: He's always eager to prove that his mechanical devices can compete with magic. It was him who, during the Time of Troubles, appeared in Lantan as a gnome and taught his faithful followers the secret of gunpowder. The Lantanese rock gnomes and humans have been making gunnes ever since. They really won't replace magic, they won't be wide-spread, remaining but a novelty. But they won't go away either. [/QUOTE]

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