MythandLore
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Bang! Bang! Blam! Blam!!!
I'm still workin' on my rules to someday, if I'm lucky, be posted.
I'm still workin' on my rules to someday, if I'm lucky, be posted.
Speaking of firearms, does anyone use them in their game?
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Deadguy
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In the Future?
For my own Shattered World setting, I have kinda pencilled in the idea that there are a few places where the gun has started to make a (re)appearance, using special alchemical 'firepowder'. I only intend for them to be basic hand cannons at this stage, though there's scope for better if Pcs want to approach the question.
I say reappearance advisedly; the setting involves a major Cataclysm that destroyed the world (literally), so there's also scope for finding a few leftovers from the major wars that destroyed civilization. What form these will take, I really haven't decided.
I am afraid of the 'Barrier Peaks' type absurdity if I handle it badly. Anyone else try and include a few firearms of more advanced design?
For my own Shattered World setting, I have kinda pencilled in the idea that there are a few places where the gun has started to make a (re)appearance, using special alchemical 'firepowder'. I only intend for them to be basic hand cannons at this stage, though there's scope for better if Pcs want to approach the question.
I say reappearance advisedly; the setting involves a major Cataclysm that destroyed the world (literally), so there's also scope for finding a few leftovers from the major wars that destroyed civilization. What form these will take, I really haven't decided.
I am afraid of the 'Barrier Peaks' type absurdity if I handle it badly. Anyone else try and include a few firearms of more advanced design?
UnDfind
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Blackpowder Weapons
I use guns in my world (I've even got a Gunslinger base class), but I made the blackpowder used for the propulsion not as powerful as gunpowder. That way guns can be a little more balanced (which actually makes it that much more fun). There's no auto or sem-auto, but I have revolvers as the standard handgun (1d6 damage). And there are rifles (1d10 damage), shotguns (1d4 damage, but an area spray effect, or 1d12 for slugs...but with only 1 or 2 shots depending on what type you buy it balances out). I won't get into the ranges, that's pretty much where the weapons differ based on model (Criticals do as well). But it has been a wonderful system so far, and I like the wild west effect thrown in with the medieval thing.
As far as enhancement bonuses go, I use the same system as bows (a flaming revolver bestows the flaming effect on the rounds it fires). I'm in the process of making a flachette weapon as well...that oughta be fun
And for the availability of guns...they're not uncommon, but still expensive. Not many use them in my world (believe it or not) because after the initial "cool, It's a gun!" thing wore off, people began realizing that melee weapons were still melee weapons, and arrows were a whole lot cheaper than bullets. In my world the Dwarves are the only ones who know the making of black powder, and it is a well-protected secret known only to those who have to know it. That way we don't get some craft-crazy gnome who decides it's time to create full-auto weapons.
I use guns in my world (I've even got a Gunslinger base class), but I made the blackpowder used for the propulsion not as powerful as gunpowder. That way guns can be a little more balanced (which actually makes it that much more fun). There's no auto or sem-auto, but I have revolvers as the standard handgun (1d6 damage). And there are rifles (1d10 damage), shotguns (1d4 damage, but an area spray effect, or 1d12 for slugs...but with only 1 or 2 shots depending on what type you buy it balances out). I won't get into the ranges, that's pretty much where the weapons differ based on model (Criticals do as well). But it has been a wonderful system so far, and I like the wild west effect thrown in with the medieval thing.
As far as enhancement bonuses go, I use the same system as bows (a flaming revolver bestows the flaming effect on the rounds it fires). I'm in the process of making a flachette weapon as well...that oughta be fun
And for the availability of guns...they're not uncommon, but still expensive. Not many use them in my world (believe it or not) because after the initial "cool, It's a gun!" thing wore off, people began realizing that melee weapons were still melee weapons, and arrows were a whole lot cheaper than bullets. In my world the Dwarves are the only ones who know the making of black powder, and it is a well-protected secret known only to those who have to know it. That way we don't get some craft-crazy gnome who decides it's time to create full-auto weapons.
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