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<blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 6091209" data-attributes="member: 2303">IRL, a big part of the reason firearms displaced bows and crossbows was because they were cheaper (in particular the ammunition) and easier to use. As long as you stay at the standard setting rules for firearms in pathfinder, they're simply be too expensive and hard to use to become dominant weapons, especially in warfare. An elite assassin might have a gun, a common soldier wouldn't.Which I feel is what you wanted to achieve.Adding a licensing system helps explain why guns are so expensive (licensing prevents any mass production). But pre-modern states were not well able to maintain a license system unless it is embedded in social mores. That only nobles and their retinues uses sword is not a law as much as it is a custom enforced by those same lords themselves. If the kind tries to proclaim a ban on certain weapons, it is far from sure it would work out. As firearms disrupt the social order (by weakening traditional knights) I can see nobles enforcing a ban on them. This situation would remain stable as long as there is no great social upheaval - one a major city with the skills to create guns on a large scale enters rebellion, firearms will become a part of the battlefield. It also would not work for a society engaged in a major conflict with an external force - if your country is in a holy war with the empire of orcus, niceties like social conventions on firearms will go the way of the dodo.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Starfox, post: 6091209, member: 2303"] IRL, a big part of the reason firearms displaced bows and crossbows was because they were cheaper (in particular the ammunition) and easier to use. As long as you stay at the standard setting rules for firearms in pathfinder, they're simply be too expensive and hard to use to become dominant weapons, especially in warfare. An elite assassin might have a gun, a common soldier wouldn't. Which I feel is what you wanted to achieve. Adding a licensing system helps explain why guns are so expensive (licensing prevents any mass production). But pre-modern states were not well able to maintain a license system unless it is embedded in social mores. That only nobles and their retinues uses sword is not a law as much as it is a custom enforced by those same lords themselves. If the kind tries to proclaim a ban on certain weapons, it is far from sure it would work out. As firearms disrupt the social order (by weakening traditional knights) I can see nobles enforcing a ban on them. This situation would remain stable as long as there is no great social upheaval - one a major city with the skills to create guns on a large scale enters rebellion, firearms will become a part of the battlefield. It also would not work for a society engaged in a major conflict with an external force - if your country is in a holy war with the empire of orcus, niceties like social conventions on firearms will go the way of the dodo. [/QUOTE]

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