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Fantasy avoids gunpowder because there is no character develipment. This is the same reason why guns are the great equalizer: Just about anyone can semi-compet
by thsksbd 3y ago
Fantasy avoids gunpowder because there is no character develipment. This is the same reason why guns are the great equalizer:
Just about anyone can semi-competently wield a gun after a ten hour course.
What this means is that guns brought down the warrior casts of Europe, Japan, etc. Guns are the great democratizing force since taw raw numbers become the most important metric of battlefield success.
With a stub nose revolver in her purse, any 110 lb woman can walk at night and have a fighting chance against a 250 lb 6ft 5 monster.
Makes for boring fantasy for sure. Makes for a fair society though.
- orbital-decay 3y agoMake the character an inventor/engineer and suddenly you have endless possibilities for progression and variation. Sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic. Equalization is not a very convincing argument. You can twist the rules in any way, this is fantasy. Make the firearms less advanced than a revolver, less available, less preferred, countered by magic, or simply make your work not revolving around combat.