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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 9661660" data-attributes="member: 6802378">The official answer by Ed Greenwood in FR the technology for firearms is known but the gunpowder and most of explosives can't work in the same way because the deity Gord doesn't want it. I guess in Eberron there is anti-firearms area magic effects in cities and battlefield. Players with PCs from a lower-technologic-level could invent low-level spells against firearms, like illusories for decoys or smoke grenade effect, pieces of ectoplasm to block canons or to water gunpowder barrels, teletransporting bullets out of the gun, and firearms can rust, overheat (and then the canon could become deformed) or get stuck. Real firearms need daily mantenance. Spellcasters could summon swarms against gunslingers. They are cheaper than magic wands but war deities wouldn't allow to enter Valhalla fighters who used firearms.Do you remember when you played Age of Empires II and any civilitations could use firearms?[ATTACH=full]405604[/ATTACH]The real History has been used as source of inspiration in the creation of D&D worlds, official or homemade, but we should take care. How to explain it softly? Several realms from the "Known World"(Mystara) are inspired in ancient civilitations from our real life, and this is OK, but today the sensibilities may be different. You should take care when an antagonist faction could be inspired into certain groups from the real life. For example some times I suspect the formians have been "cancelled" because some players could use them like an allegory of the "red armies" from the real life. Or let's imagine the <s>scro</s> space orcs from Spelljammer wearing clothings and armours like Otoman corsairs (the famous pirate Barbarrosa was Otoman with Greek origins, not English, here Hollywood is wrong). How would you feel if anybody told the dark elves from Warhammer who rebelled against the noble high elves are an allegory of USA? You could tolerate a couple of times but when the trope become too usual then it starts to be annoying. Take care with possible controversies about History because other could tell a different point of view. For example [ISPOILER]somebody could say Francis Drake was the first who circumnavitated the globe when really the first ones were the Magellan-Elcano expedition[/ISPOILER].</blockquote>

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