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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zhure" data-source="post: 163196" data-attributes="member: 308">By "modern" I'm assuming you mean near contemporary tech-level. Even in colonial America, with firearms there were also melee weapons. Cavalry sabers, bayonets and so forth made it into the Civil War and the Wild West era.For a modern/fantasy genre, which is what I think you are looking for, especially with references to monsters, adding to your ideas:- Stealth: swords are quiet, guns make noise.- Frequency: guns run out of ammo; swords last until the wielder tires- gunpowder might not work at all too close to certain extra-planar creatures.- Firebreathing dragons tend to ignite gunpowder.- warped space may form around outsiders, so all ranged attacks suffer huge penalties-- a ranged attack might even rebound on the attacker.- guns may be too high-tech to be enchanted. An off-the-rack longsword isn't as good as an Uzi, but a +5 longsword is better.Hope that helps,Greg</blockquote>