Quick one on guns, because I have been slapped around by this excellent post and can no longer ignore the fact that you can and should buy a brace of handguns in the Barony.
Quick writeup/rules (almost entirely stolen directly from the linked post which you should read, because it is very good):
- Pistols do 2d6, muskets do 2d8, weirder guns have bespoke stats. Muskets fire with the range profile of a shortbow, pistols at half this.
- Everything is a matchlock (I like the image and fiddlyness of burning matches).
- Nothing works if you get it wet. Powder is ruined.
- It take you a couple of minutes to reload, you can't do this in combat.
- Guns are fucking loud, and also represent something about humanity and its hidden destiny of control. If you fire one in the Dungeon and no one has been bloodied yet, your next wandering monster check will always count as: nothing, but further rolls are at +2. If someone IS bloodied in your party when you fire your firearm, you must roll on the wandering monster table immediately. The dungeon can taste fear.
- Firing a gun makes a lot of smoke, which takes ages to disperse. Unless there is strong air movement, every firearm fired during a combat gives every following attack from everyone relying on vision a -1 to hit, which stacks.
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Another thing just for fun. I generally write up posts while under the strong influence of specific music. I thought it would be interesting to list the 'soundtracks' for some of the posts on the blog. Maybe this is boring? Who knows lol.
IMPERIAL ESPATIERS sound like THIS and THIS, without the annoying breaks from the minor mode, and repeating for hours and hours at hideously high volume (this actually needs a proper writeup because the Imperial hurdy-gurdy and bagpipe drones, with rounds layered on top, are culturally important).
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