[quote=@DeadBeatWalking]
Sorry! Girlfrando was using computer today for search for jobs.
No guns.
[/quote]Does it mean we are back in the 12th century?
That would have some...very un-fun consequences.
Like the tiny island out far away from Essos never able to interact with any of the other players.
Or the absence of castles as we know them, knights in shining armor and crossbows being a rare and kinda dubiously effective weapon outside sieges.
Heck, you don't even have counterweight trebuchets (albeit nor you need them).

[quote=@DeadBeatWalking]EDIT: For clarification, no guns because they make battles less fun. Guy with a gun versus armed knight, trained archer, outlandish barbarian, fancy duelist, it's pretty much always gonna be guy with a gun. Cannon versus champion fighter, stone wall, fast ship, it's pretty much always gonna be cannon. I feel like the addition of firearms trumps any specialized [i]thing[/i] another country can have or do.
[/quote]How?
Battles have so many important elements you can't even generalize them by category.
Guy with a gun versus a swordsman on a narrow staircase. Swordsman cuts down the gunner before the guy even have time to lit the match on his gun.
It also worth mentioning that even with muskets and their extremely heavy bullets plate armored knight could be safe until they are about 30 meters from them. They feared heavy crossbows much more.
Guns are useful in the right conditions and doctrines with them.
Even then gunners marching up in a line and shoot style tactics were not used exactly because of them fearing heavy cavalry.
Guns are unfun if you give them abilities they don't have.

Also fancy duelist? I thought you explicitly prohibited people to write about "special superskilled swordsmen of cool" in their army descriptions.