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<blockquote data-quote="JohnRTroy" data-source="post: 4338335" data-attributes="member: 2732">Plane Sailing has good ideas.I could also see a world with guns but guns scrictly controlled.&nbsp; Fantasy worlds don't usually have concepts of weapon control by the state in modern times, at least amongst the gentry.&nbsp; Perhaps with magic guns are a lot more accurate, akin to the accuracy of our modern weapons, but they are kept under strict control, with only knights having access to them.&nbsp; Maybe owning a &quot;smokerod&quot; would be akin to owning a Katana in Japan.&nbsp; Another possibility would be to have an isolated state on a campaign world with higher (mechanical) technology, and it starts trickling down to the other states.&nbsp; For instance, using 4e as a base, say a continent away a state of Warforged and Dwarves have the near Victorian &quot;Steampunk&quot; levels of technology, but are isolationist.&nbsp; The other states don't have the secret of gunpowder, but some rich and powerful people can buy (or steal/smuggle) weapons into other states.&nbsp; That would keep the technology rare and under control but allow you leeway to slowly integrate these items.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnRTroy, post: 4338335, member: 2732"] Plane Sailing has good ideas. I could also see a world with guns but guns scrictly controlled. Fantasy worlds don't usually have concepts of weapon control by the state in modern times, at least amongst the gentry. Perhaps with magic guns are a lot more accurate, akin to the accuracy of our modern weapons, but they are kept under strict control, with only knights having access to them. Maybe owning a "smokerod" would be akin to owning a Katana in Japan. Another possibility would be to have an isolated state on a campaign world with higher (mechanical) technology, and it starts trickling down to the other states. For instance, using 4e as a base, say a continent away a state of Warforged and Dwarves have the near Victorian "Steampunk" levels of technology, but are isolationist. The other states don't have the secret of gunpowder, but some rich and powerful people can buy (or steal/smuggle) weapons into other states. That would keep the technology rare and under control but allow you leeway to slowly integrate these items. [/QUOTE]

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