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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 2305158" data-attributes="member: 277">For the most part, it sounds like guns really changed things because of the impact they had on armies, not on heroes:1) They were cheaper to make than longbows Um no no no no  no no. You still need a gun smith to create forge, file, etc eact one especially once you move pass the hollow iron bar with a touch hole stage. 2) Any peasant could be conscripted, handed a rifle, and sent to warTrue but they never were. The royal bought, hired, trained musketters. 3) Armies could carry more ammo, and thus outlast their bow-wielding enemies neither which takes up more 1 pd of powder which may seperate while on the wagon or a bundle of arrows. I will give maybe a quarter space  saved to gunpowder. At best until you introduce rifling etc what I would do is firearms are simple weapons.Armour is  1/2  not including magic. Since there are document cases of someone shooting their mistress in the throat and she surviving I would not change bullets being instant death into d&D.. Why mr. wimble. What is more dangerous> Grandma carrying a shot gun yell death to carpet baggers. Or an angry red dragon carrying four captain guns. Note captian guns two pistols with 3 barrels each flintlock used to put down mutinities. 2 trigger pulls = 6 shots in to the crowd of dread pirates.</blockquote>