Magic Guns!

[John Q. Mayhem]

Awesome! Reminds me of that thing that guy had in that Discworld novel...I can't recall which novel it was, but it had vampires and werewolves and dwarves, and was set in Uberwald. There was this assassin with a one-shot crossbow that was a spring-in-a-tube. It was very cool.

 

[Fieari]

Awesome! Reminds me of that thing that guy had in that Discworld novel...I can't recall which novel it was, but it had vampires and werewolves and dwarves, and was set in Uberwald. There was this assassin with a one-shot crossbow that was a spring-in-a-tube. It was very cool.

That would be "The Fifth Elephant"... highly reccomended, but you'll want to read the previous Watch novels first, as there is a nice chronological order that makes the books even better if you read them right.

And yeah, the one-shot was cool. "One shot that your opponent doesn't know you have..."

It also mentioned that you'd have to have nerves of steel to be willing to keep that much power of a coiled spring inside your pants. And... er... other things of steel too, for that matter.

 

[Abisashi]

Darkness

Just finished reading Descending Darkness by Harry Turtledove, which is rather relevant here I think. The Darkness series is approximately WW2 redone in a fantasy setting - dragons instead of planes, ley-line caravans instead of trains, "eggs" instead of bombs, "sticks" instead of guns. I don't know how sticks are powered in times of peace, but in war, soldiers either A) kill captives for their life energy of B) some of the soldiers sacrifice their life energy to help their comrades keep fighting. Sticks "blaze" people - they fire beams of energy (lasers? they can be attenuated by water...).

So, if you want a system with ready access to your gun-equivalents, with the chance for some heroic-sacrifice/geneva-conventions-violations, and this inspires you, use it. If not, look at one of the other fine posts.

And read Harry Turtledove.