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From Oubliette to Oublioth [R.I.P]

No, those are called Magitech Engineers.

Darkest Before the Dawn: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

@Majoras End@BrokenPromisethar

From Oubliette to Oublioth [R.I.P]

Or just cast lightning bolt.

Darkest Before the Dawn: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

@Majoras End@BrokenPromiseplottening thickening

From Oubliette to Oublioth [R.I.P]

Basically yeah. Anime magic makes going up against mooks ez pz, even when all you have is a sword and they're toting assault rifles.

From Oubliette to Oublioth [R.I.P]

I dunno about that. The cost of producing firearms is greater than the cost of producing bows and arrows, and I personally think that the skill involved in maintaining firearms is greater than what is required for bows too. So you have a group of untrained, undisciplined commoners, trying to work with technology that has a good chance of exploding in their face, up against, say, the army, which, while not consisting entirely of wizards, will still have enough to just rip through the peasants.

AoE magic will do a number on them, after all. It's literally a massacre, unless the peasants and the middle-class (and weirdly democratic adventurers) stupid enough to support them ALSO have their hands on powerful magical artifacts that may help them deal with the disadvantage of being composed largely of fodder.

From Oubliette to Oublioth [R.I.P]

That's the point, yeah. Caring about what the unwashed masses can do with x technology doesn't really make sense in a world where there are actual, massive physical and magical differences between the peasants and the powerful. Even if firearms are better in the hands of peasants than bows are, bows are better in the hands of high level people than firearms are, due to stat-scaling. So an army of peasants armed with guns will be unable to overthrow much of anything, as they'd just get yeeted by a high level archer at a distance they can't even perceive.

Of course, such firearms technology still could be delivered if there was a hidden part of the world where no one is inherently capable of utilizing magic...gunslinger high elf out from the boonies? ;3

From Oubliette to Oublioth [R.I.P]

I'd presume that there are also projectile weaponry enchanted to go 'anti-protection against projectiles' then. Or there's a certainly amount of force that 'protection against projectiles' can deflect, with anything above that just ripping through.

From Oubliette to Oublioth [R.I.P]

In a world where people have superhuman stats, are guns even superior to bows? Consider that with high STR, you could pull hella big bows, and with high DEX, you could fire off hella fast. Meanwhile, guns, simply based off how they function, can't scale off their users' stats, beyond just furthering accuracy. Which is good in early game, bad in mid-late game.

Of course, if you're gonna go magic guns, then ok. But then I raise you with a magic bow.

From Oubliette to Oublioth [R.I.P]

High elf gunslinger? Such sacrilege.