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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4387846" data-attributes="member: 8863">Well, the 3e section looks more or less complete.  The DMG did have optional rules for Renaisance, Modern and Futuristic firearms, and you seem to have all the relevant information on the first group.For second edition: The PHB includes one firearm on the equipment tables, the arquebus.  I don't remember all the special rules for it, except that it required a magical equivalent of gunpowder called smoke powder.  This was ostensibly to give the DM control over how much the gun could be used in a campaign.Better firearms rules are in Player's Option: Combat and Tactics.  There's a whole section on various types of primitive firearms, and the rules use regular gunpowder (IIRC) rather than resorting to that smoke powder crap.  (IMO if the DM doesn't want guns, then he or she should just say no, rather than using a magic item to jerk a player around).There are several other sources for firearms rules in 2e. The A Mighty Fortress (?) historical reference I'm pretty sure has rules, there's probably rules somewhere in Spelljammer, and Red Steel/Savage Coast stuff should have rules.  You could check the free Savage Coast material on WotC's site.  The Tales of the Lance boxed set had rules for tinker gnome blunderbusses, and I think some kind of tinker gnome cannon. Dragon #232 (August 1996) has an article about magical firearms (with an appropriate tongue-in-cheeck subtitle) which lists all sorts of sources about the use of firearms in (A)D&D, and how appropriate firearms would be in the various campaign settings.</blockquote>

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