Arquebuses on layonara ?

[Praylor Falcus]

I was in vehl and noticed that we now have cannons, the handheld versions are not out of the relm of posiability now, of course charcoal, sulfur and saltpeter would have to be added to the CNR and changes to the alchemy tables to follow. The metal workers would have to have barrels added to the anvils, and wood workers would have stocks added to thier benches.


  Rockets, hand grenades and cluster bombs can't be far behind either. Or is this a lesson to be learned. Be careful what you introduce into the world, as the human mind is a wonderous thing. After all we did figure out how to make lemonade when confronted with lemons.

[Thak]

I'd love pirate style flintlock guns. Mmmm. Of course in the name of balance they should be only as strong as an equivalent bow or crossbow. Afterall early flintlocks were terribly inacurate and their smoke and sound was much more impressive and frightening to an enemy. Maybe a sound/stun or something and very low firing rate would be an idea... And totally go for the gnomish invention/tinkering cnr thing.

[gilshem ironstone]

I don't know why, but I hate the notion of gunpowder in a fantasy setting.. Maybe it strays too far from my Tolkien roots.  I think that a society that has people trained to throw fireballs and make illusions so terrifying to kill you instantly would not think of using gunpowder.  Thats just me though, I am interested to hear what others think.

[Leanthar]

We don't have cannons folks. We don't have gunpowder either. And we won't for any time soon (IE YEARS)...

Sorry.

[merlin34baseball]

L,
  There are cannons in Vehl though...
  Not that I want cannons, just an observation that they are there.

[Leanthar]

Yeah...well it is part of a tileset. Not much I can do about that. I will move this to bug reports in case we can take them out and still have the tileset look like what we want. But there are no cannons and no gunpowder.

[Talan Va'lash]

actually it's not a part of the tileset, those are placeables that were added after I submitted the area.

[Leanthar]

I know and Pan just told me that and they will be removed.

I will say it again. There is no gunpowder and no cannons. Eventually there will be...and perhaps the gnomes have some sort of thing heading in that direction. But they do not exist at this time.

[Pankoki]

Removed cannons in next update.