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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8618130" data-attributes="member: 19857">To be fair - older versions of D&D definitely play up how much more damaging firearms are than 5e does.  IMO even 5e goes overboard in the DMG on the damage a lot of modern firearms do on a hit, because while it's true that if you get hit by a bullet in the gut it will mess you up it's also true that if a dagger goes into your belly you're going to be just as messed up and nobody argues that a dagger's 1d4 damage is too small to represent how deadly it is (but getting into it will descend this entire thread into an argument about what hit points actually represent and nobody wants to do that again).But IIRC smokepowder weapons in Spelljammer weren't a problem for us.  I don't remember why - if we houseruled the damage to be like a crossbow because of fierce arguments about how deadly crossbows actually are (the history nerd and the hunting nerd always banded together to argue everyone down on that one when I was younger), or if it came out of the book that way - I just remember it wasn't an issue.</blockquote>