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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kapture" data-source="post: 2176743" data-attributes="member: 7645">I've been fussing with some homebrew firearm rules, that limit their "terrible power", making sense in a magical millieu while still being useful to the general populace.This is what I've come up with so far:They do damage as Monte Cook's firearms from his Chaositech web enhancement.Loading a firearm is a move equivalent action that draws an attack of opportunity.Only adamantine bullets can be enchanted. Guns cannot pass on enchantments because the bullets are deformed ("destroyed/broken") in firing.I'm thinking of making them less useful vs. damage reduction. I don't think there are many creatures that have /piercing, so they're not so effective as a type of weapon in and of themselves, but they do enough damage that they will overcome low damage resistance fairly regularly anyways. I was thinking that they might do half damage versus a damage resistance that they can't over come, because they rely more heavilly than other weapons on kinetic energy. It's kinetic energy that does the damage with all weapons: but to overcome damage resistance, the kinetic energy has to be applied by a specific material. ie, a big honking silver sword does more damage because of it's mass than it's kinetic energy. A little silver bullet does more damage because of it's immense kinetic energy rather than because of it's itty bitty mass.I'm thinking these rules will make guns useful in mundane situations: personal defense, warfare, ambushes, but not so useful in heroic situations: skirmishes, long term adventuring, against supernatural enemies. They would be more useful for NPCs (useful against a broader array of mortal threats in the short term) than PCs (not as useful against one of a kind supernatural threats over the length of an encounter).Any thoughts? Am I making sense? Is there a more elegant way to tweak that damage resistance mechanic?</blockquote>

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