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<blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 4343210" data-attributes="member: 1879">I've never understood the whole &quot;Guns should do 12d42 +97&quot; meme that often intrudes on these discussions.If you shoot someone centre of mass with a gun they are probably going to fall over dead, yes. Guess what? The same thing happens with a bow or a lowly dagger and you still fall over dead.Tell yah what, anyone who wants to test it out is welcome to come over and shoot me with the gun of your choice, as long as I get to shoot you with a broadhead arrow first.Guns kill people, swords kill people, pointy sticks kill people, rocks kill people, and mousquitos have killed more than all of them put together.*ahem* Now that that is out of my system, I think Iron Kingdom handled firearms quite well, with one exception, your cost per shot is way way too high. The guns in that world make no economic sense what-so-ever compared to bows and crossbows. The cost per shot is somewhere between 6 and 12 gp per shot. You might as well melt your gold down for bullets directly. Real world bullets cost 2 to 20¢, getting up towards $1 per shot for exotic calibers like some Weatherbys. Hell the Army pays less for grenades than Iron Kingoms guns use per shot. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm&nbsp; &nbsp; :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andor, post: 4343210, member: 1879"] I've never understood the whole "Guns should do 12d42 +97" meme that often intrudes on these discussions. If you shoot someone centre of mass with a gun they are probably going to fall over dead, yes. Guess what? The same thing happens with a bow or a lowly dagger and you still fall over dead. Tell yah what, anyone who wants to test it out is welcome to come over and shoot me with the gun of your choice, as long as I get to shoot you with a broadhead arrow first. Guns kill people, swords kill people, pointy sticks kill people, rocks kill people, and mousquitos have killed more than all of them put together. *ahem* Now that that is out of my system, I think Iron Kingdom handled firearms quite well, with one exception, your cost per shot is way [u]way[/u] too high. The guns in that world make no economic sense what-so-ever compared to bows and crossbows. The cost per shot is somewhere between 6 and 12 gp per shot. You might as well melt your gold down for bullets directly. Real world bullets cost 2 to 20¢, getting up towards $1 per shot for exotic calibers like some Weatherbys. Hell the Army pays less for grenades than Iron Kingoms guns use per shot. :hmm: [/QUOTE]

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