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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GrimCo" data-source="post: 9892503" data-attributes="member: 7044462">When we move away from mechanics and go into more setting/fiction part, guns have their place. It's mainly emulating swashbuckling era. Pirates with brace of pistols. Musketeers with pistols and muskets. Dragoons with pistols and carbines. But for all those archetypes, in fiction, guns aren't their primary weapons. It's their opener. One shot (or couple with brace of pistols) from relatively close range and then switch to the sword. D&D is about small band of individuals fighting small band or just single individual. In that scenario, early guns aren't that great. True power of muskets was in war. Single musketeer has one chance to hit enemy runing at him with melee weapon. If he misses (which he has good chance), he is done. No time to reload, either you have bayonet ready or ditch gun for sword. 100 musketeers, in 3 rows, firing volley after volley (one row reloads, one fires), that's scary. It's wall of lead incoming at you. And unlike sword of bow, you can train musketeer in weeks, not years.</blockquote>