D&D 5E (2014) Let's Talk About Guns in 5E

[W'rkncacnter]

i agree with most of this, guns aren't special, don't mythologize them, don't have a feat that circumvents loading, but i would at least say don't make them all loading by default, there should be guns you can fire quickly and guns you can only shoot once a round.

i would say don't mythologize guns any more then dnd mythologizes any other weapon.
which is to say some mythologizing is fine. a lot of weapons in dnd have some mythologizing going on, especially swords. just be careful about it.

also, hot take - loading should add extra weapon damage dice for each extra attack your character has (to represent replacing a flurry of attacks with superior aim). it'd still be less effective then extra attack (only one chance to do damage plus only applying per-attack modifiers once) but it'd actually make loading weapons not complete unmitigated garbage for characters with extra attack while still maintaining enough believability to not be outright comical

 

[Cap'n Kobold]

I think that the idea is not that "Simple weapons require no training", but more that Simple weapons are likely to have been used and trained in by common people. Martial weapons are ones that generally only dedicated warriors or military would have been trained in.

 

[CreamCloud0]

I think that the idea is not that "Simple weapons require no training", but more that Simple weapons are likely to have been used and trained in by common people. Martial weapons are ones that generally only dedicated warriors or military would have been trained in.

yeah, as i mentioned earlier, in '14 it was possible to not have proficiency in all simple weapons, meaning that to some degree, simple weapons do still need some degree of training to wield properly, meaning they're not just 'weapons anyone can just pick up and use'

 

[Minigiant]

ignoring that if firearms were logistically expensive they never would have caught on, "commoner men-at-arms" is kind of a contradiction unless you just mean "commoner" to mean "not a noble". men-at-arms were highly trained and well equipped. they wouldn't need an "easy" option (though depending on what it was they might like it).

I mean I like D&D guns to be simple to use, easy to hoard, but hard to transport.

So firearms can be used by people but not by the masses of the battlefields of war.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

I mean I like D&D guns to be simple to use, easy to hoard, but hard to transport.

So firearms can be used by people but not by the masses of the battlefields of war.

i understood what you meant. that's why i said what i said.