Re: rifles

Harry Bandoian wrote:
>
> I just came up with this, but dont you think the giff would haf more
> advanced smokepowder weapons like rifles (the civilwar type) and such?

To me, it seems that Giff doesn't do much _inventing_ of smokepowder
weapons - they just use what others have come up with. Noone has yet
made that invasion, so they're not using it.

If you just want cooler firearms in general, look at Combat & Tactics.
It has neat rules for matchlocks, snaplocks, wheellocks and flintlocks,
that make them a little more fearsome. One attribute given to most
firearms (except blunderbusses and the most primitive of the others) is
an armor-piercing ability: ignore all armor (or at least 10 points of
it) at short range, 5 points at medium and 2 at long. Dex and magic
bonuses still count (so Dex 16 and Plate mail +2 would be AC 6 to a
flintlock musket).
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