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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8095793" data-attributes="member: 14159">Would you allow unlimited Holy Water?  Unlimited Alchemist's Fire?Treat it like you would any other alchemical item: make it expensive to buy and time consuming to make.  If PC's are cleaning out the local alchemists of something like that, people are going to ask questions, people are going to talk, those alchemists are going to mention to the guards or a noble they might know that someone's been stockpiling the stuff.How would you treat a magic item that was essentially a one-shot fireball item anyone could activate but was bulky?  That's essentially what a small keg of gunpowder would be.Even when D&D has been officially used to represent historic eras, it was always 1650 or earlier (both the 2e Historic Reference series ended at that year, and the 3e d20 Past for using d20 Modern to depict pre-modern times began at circa 1650), when firearms were still expensive, gunpowder was time consuming and difficult to make and obtaining the raw materials in bulk was sometimes difficult.  The Gunpowder Plot in Britain was in 1605, so the use of gunpowder for something PC's might do (use a LOT of it to attempt to assassinate a King) is possible. . .but remember the Gunpowder Plot failed.</blockquote>