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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Loonook" data-source="post: 5871870" data-attributes="member: 1861">I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.  I aim with my eye.I do not shoot with my hand;  He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.  I shoot with my mind.I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.  I kill with my heart.So, I've been thinking on it, and thinking on it... And I just do not see a need for firearms to be eliminated from a Fantasy setting.  In a world where men walk around with iron golems, flaming swords, and the ability to open doors to the Planes, I'm just not feeling the complete need to remove the gun as a valid weapon choice, or penalize it as heavily as it has been with series like Pathfinder.  We let ourselves be trapped in the idea that guns could overthrow society with their introduction...Let me present a different option to you.Why not just use the Line of Eld or the Order of the White as your example of how gund are treated?  Guns aren't toys, and they are definitely Exotic weapons, and those who know of the ways of the gun are secretive.  While some simplistic poorly-made firearms exist outside of this group, these men carry their iron like ancestral daisho.  The guns are relics of a living age, but really how much more powerful would they be in comparison to any other weapons?Deadlands d20 marks its most powerful non-scatter gun at 2d8+2.  I will not suggest scatterguns are perfect for every game in their Deadlands form, but the benefits of carrying a firearm (critical of 19-20) are weighed by the possibility of jamming (reliability that can be reduced).  So 5% of the time that gun is going to jam, or have the ability to do so.  So, what is the point of this?  Allow the firearm.  Gunslingers as a group of warriors of technology, who use a dangerous arm and know the hazards of their use.  Would a gunslinger use a firearm in all cases? No, of course not.  The use of axes, slingshots, bows, etc. would not be uncommon, just due to the rarity of ammunition/need to reload with this expensive material.  Not a lot of people who know the ways of the gun, and the party would hae to stop to craft ammunition and repair their guns, possibly reducing their reliability.And also, a group of semi-Paladins who protects the world through their science and technology?  How can you not love it? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />.Slainte,-Loonook.</blockquote>

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