Legendary Guns

[Mallus]

As a matter of fact, our new homebrew setting has legendary gunsmith who makes legendary guns...

"Erik Anathema is the Port's foremost gunsmith, despite being almost entirely blind. He charges exorbitant prices for his work, but none can deny that they are worth it -- his creations are both beautiful and reliable, a delight to the hand and the eye alike. Anathema keeps a god in his workshop, an entity called The Juddering Manxome, that protects and inspires him. Each of Erik's guns has a invocation to the Juddering Manxome etched upon it, and each time one of those guns is fired the god hears its voice and knows its target."

Anathema pistols are highly sought after, like lethal Stradivarius violins.

 

[Dr Simon]

These are all cool ideas, folks, thanks. I use Monte Cooke's firearms from the free "Technology" PDF on his website, which I guess are probably the same ones that can be found in Ptolus (Dragon Rifles and the like). I like that they are deliberately designed for a D&D world and not merely ports of real world guns.

So, guns made from holy/unholy relics seem to be common. There's something iconic about the gunslingin' preacherman, isn't there? Particularly in graphic novels. You need a duster coat, and to always appear first in silhouette.

 

[mmadsen]

Hellboy has the Samaritan, an enormous 4-shot revolver made from melted-down church bells.

How did I miss that? When was that spelled out?

 

[Hypersmurf]

Anathema pistols are highly sought after, like lethal Stradivarius violins.

I love this line, by the way.

-Hyp.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Any six-gun from most any early Western movie or serial. (AKA: 40 shooters.) And Patton's revolver was ivory handled. See the movie to hear what he thought of pearl handled guns.

 

[El Mahdi]

I love this line, by the way.

-Hyp.

Yeah, Lethal Stradovarius Violins would make awesome Bard/Troubador implements!

 

[Asmor]

I came in here to mention the Colt on Supernatural, but see I got beat to the punch...

Might be worth looking into World of Warcraft, too, as guns are probably the most popular ranged weapon in the game. They tend to be less magical than pseudo-scientific, e.g. one of the best guns in the game is the Gyro-Balanced Khorium Destroyer.

 

[Oni]

Deadlands had some magic guns didn't it.

 

[D.Shaffer]

In Nomine had several holy/unholy guns too.

 

[Stormborn]

Iron Kingdoms has a Gun Mage, sort of a sorcerer with a gun. Personally I wasnt happy with the mechanics of the class but liked the flavor. It wouldnt take much to turn the Sorcerer or the Battle Sorcerer from UA into a better version, focusing on Ray Spells.

Scion from WW also features a demi-god with a mjonir-like oversized pistol.

Guns do carry a certain mistique, especially in the US, that has been hard to capture in RPGs.