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BlueMagitek wrote...

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(1) Magic will no longer be descriminated against, as everyone can have access to something just as (if not more) dangerous.


Gunpower lets you control minds?


Have you looked at the NRA has been up to recently? </zing>

 They're not using gunpowder for that, they're using money and the media.

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Over gunpowder obsession, yes.

But I'm not about to turn a one liner into a political debate, friend. =D

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 Can we turn it into a duel of one-liners? Those are always fun.

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A duel, huh? NRA approved.

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Riverdaleswhiteflash wrote...

 Can we turn it into a duel of one-liners? Those are always fun.


No. </Sten>


Anyway, back on topic, a scientific revolution of Thedas would solve quite a few problems, but there would be many more, especially with the wild card that is Lyrium.

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Riverdaleswhiteflash wrote...

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The Qunari have gunpower.  Or some kind of explosive powder at least.  Didn't exactly stop them from discriminating against mages, did it?

They discriminate against everyone and everything, even themselves. So it's hard to argue there. I'll give you this one.


You don't have a compelling argument in the first place, I'm sorry to say.  You've yet to demonstrate at all how the presence of gunpower or guns themselves would make people stop discriminating against mages.  You just think it'll, uh, magically happen.


I think the idea is that guns are as powerful as magic, which means that everyone will be superpowerful when guns become common. And then, when everyone's super, nobody will be.


Yeah, I know that's the general idea.  It's just not a compelling one at all, for the reasons you mentioned and more.  Unless anyone thinks that guns will spring into existence fully formed as 21st century models, rather than undergoing a gradual evolution, it wouldn't work.  Archers and mages both would easily outstrip the ultra-low efficiency of early gun tech.

Quite aside from the question of what gun technology would do to the different Thedosian cultures, I for one don't want guns in my games.  Yes, guns can be part of a fantasy setting.  But they do bring an entirely different feel to that setting, and it's not one I like.  For that matter, damnit, I don't like guns irl and would happily see them banned, and what's more it would lead to endless gun rights/control debates drowning the forums worse than the mage/templar terrorist/freedom fighter arguments ever did.

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I think when Thedas become more advance in technology, magic will disappear, because no one need magic anymore

Even Anders blow up the Chantry using bomb, not magic

Maybe Anders learn to make one from a Qunari, the story already hint us about gunpowder in Act 1, and Chantry blown up in Act 3.

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Even Anders blow up the Chantry using bomb, not magic

Um, it was very clearly a magical bomb.

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I think when Thedas become more advance in technology, magic will disappear, because no one need magic anymore

Even Anders blow up the Chantry using bomb, not magic

Maybe Anders learn to make one from a Qunari, the story already hint us about gunpowder in Act 1, and Chantry blown up in Act 3.


Magic isn't going to disappear.  It's a genetic trait that the lore has actually hinted as being on the increase. 

Magic  WAS involved in Anders' bomb.  Either in its creation or its detonation or both. 

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Honestly the orginal firearms aren't that effective, but what made them seem to be effective is a person who isn't trained was able to use a firearm better then a bow and arrow and it was faster to reload then a crossbow.  Most of the time the person died from wounds other then being shot such as infection or the internal damage, but who knows how the Darkspawn would react to something like that.

As far as being an equalizer for the mages, I could see the Arcane Duelist being kinda OP.

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Anything that further distinguishes Thedas from it's homogenized, pseudo-medieval brethren is a good thing.

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If DA goes the Fable route I would facepalm right through the back of my head. I rolled my eyes when I reach that quest in da2. I don't want some damn cannons.

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Dunno why guns + fantasy is always Fable, what about Torchlight, Project Eternity, Final Fantasy (some of them), etc. etc.

I still want the caster guns and Tao magic from Outlaw Star.

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Sanunes wrote...

Honestly the orginal firearms aren't that effective, but what made them seem to be effective is a person who isn't trained was able to use a firearm better then a bow and arrow and it was faster to reload then a crossbow.  Most of the time the person died from wounds other then being shot such as infection or the internal damage, but who knows how the Darkspawn would react to something like that.

As far as being an equalizer for the mages, I could see the Arcane Duelist being kinda OP.


Bows were more efficient than early guns, more accurate and better at piercing armor, and with less chance of malfunctioning to injure the shooter.  So I don't know that early guns could have seemed to be more effective, despite the differences in skill training.  It hardly matters if unskilled people are able to use guns more easily than bows and arrows, if said guns are crap weapons compared to bows, and there are skilled archers available.

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Filament wrote...

Dunno why guns + fantasy is always Fable, what about Torchlight, Project Eternity, Final Fantasy (some of them), etc. etc.

I still want the caster guns and Tao magic from Outlaw Star.


Getting away from video games, you ever read Brandon Sanderon's Mistborn trilogy?  That series is all about sword and sorcery type fantasy, but he has a sequel that, three hundred years in the future, is more akin to the Old West, and Sanderson has written that one of his reasons for going this route is specifically because there seems to be this universal assumption that fantasy can't be high tech.  Last I checked he eventually planned to have his mistborn universe be quite futuristic, technologically speaking, but to still be high fantasy.

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Silfren wrote...

Sanunes wrote...

Honestly the orginal firearms aren't that effective, but what made them seem to be effective is a person who isn't trained was able to use a firearm better then a bow and arrow and it was faster to reload then a crossbow.  Most of the time the person died from wounds other then being shot such as infection or the internal damage, but who knows how the Darkspawn would react to something like that.

As far as being an equalizer for the mages, I could see the Arcane Duelist being kinda OP.


Bows were more efficient than early guns, more accurate and better at piercing armor, and with less chance of malfunctioning to injure the shooter.  So I don't know that early guns could have seemed to be more effective, despite the differences in skill training.  It hardly matters if unskilled people are able to use guns more easily than bows and arrows, if said guns are crap weapons compared to bows, and there are skilled archers available.


also a lot of the early guns took a stupidly long time to reload- you miss and while you are reloading via stuffing the gunpowder in and bullet, your enemy runs up to you and stabs you in the face. so I'm not really sure what you based that comment on, Sanunes.

and with mages in the mix it makes even less sense; they can hurl fireballs and lightning a crapload faster and more accurate than someone with a 1st generation  gun

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Um, it was very clearly a magical bomb.


Anders improvise, he's a wizard

When we meet javaris, if Anders is there, he will mention about "I have heard about those things...", then Javaris talking about "making hole", "use on enemies" ect.....maybe there he got the idea to use bomb and learn how to make one...the rest is Varric exaggeration

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[quote]KiwiQuiche wrote...

[quote]Silfren wrote...

[quote]Sanunes wrote...

Honestly the orginal firearms aren't that effective, but what made them seem to be effective is a person who isn't trained was able to use a firearm better then a bow and arrow and it was faster to reload then a crossbow.  Most of the time the person died from wounds other then being shot such as infection or the internal damage, but who knows how the Darkspawn would react to something like that.

As far as being an equalizer for the mages, I could see the Arcane Duelist being kinda OP.
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Bows were more efficient than early guns, more accurate and better at piercing armor, and with less chance of malfunctioning to injure the shooter.  So I don't know that early guns could have seemed to be more effective, despite the differences in skill training.  It hardly matters if unskilled people are able to use guns more easily than bows and arrows, if said guns are crap weapons compared to bows, and there are skilled archers available.
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also a lot of the early guns took a stupidly long time to reload- you miss and while you are reloading via stuffing the gunpowder in and bullet, your enemy runs up to you and stabs you in the face. so I'm not really sure what you based that comment on, Sanunes.[/quote]

Ah, but it sure does make for some comedic moments on t.v.  One of my favorite moments from the Lincoln movie was watching a man shoot at and miss another man at fairly close range, and the other guy being able to escape safely because the gun was now useless for the next several minutes--and in terms of the total history of gun technology it was a fairly recent model.
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Silfren, the reason is mass production/time to train, remember it took years to train a bowman vs the days or weeks to train an arquebus.  Also with training comes cost, at this point there were not standing armies of later years.  Additionally the arquebus was never solo, but generally paired with units of pikemen

Silfren wrote...

Sanunes wrote...

Honestly the orginal firearms aren't that effective, but what made them seem to be effective is a person who isn't trained was able to use a firearm better then a bow and arrow and it was faster to reload then a crossbow.  Most of the time the person died from wounds other then being shot such as infection or the internal damage, but who knows how the Darkspawn would react to something like that.

As far as being an equalizer for the mages, I could see the Arcane Duelist being kinda OP.


Bows were more efficient than early guns, more accurate and better at piercing armor, and with less chance of malfunctioning to injure the shooter.  So I don't know that early guns could have seemed to be more effective, despite the differences in skill training.  It hardly matters if unskilled people are able to use guns more easily than bows and arrows, if said guns are crap weapons compared to bows, and there are skilled archers available.



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It's still created with a Tevinter ingredient.

Anyway, it poses a interesting opportunity that the Qunari might be rumored to blowing up the Kirkwall Chantry like there is doubt on the Fereldan Blight.

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Qistina wrote...

Um, it was very clearly a magical bomb.


Anders improvise, he's a wizard

When we meet javaris, if Anders is there, he will mention about "I have heard about those things...", then Javaris talking about "making hole", "use on enemies" ect.....maybe there he got the idea to use bomb and learn how to make one...the rest is Varric exaggeration


The bomb was magical.  I didn't even realize this was in dispute. 

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Magic isn't going to disappear. It's a genetic trait that the lore has actually hinted as being on the increase.

Magic WAS involved in Anders' bomb. Either in its creation or its detonation or both.


If Thedas following our real life biology, genetic trait will gone to the offspring when it not needed.

For example, our ancestors have more resistance than us today because they live in harsh condition, not like us, we are indeed weaker than our ancestors

And if Evolution Theory being applied, when the organism no longer need certain trait, the trait gone...the Apes no longer having furs when evolved into human, if you believe such thing

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KiwiQuiche wrote...

Silfren wrote...

Bows
were more efficient than early guns, more accurate and better at
piercing armor, and with less chance of malfunctioning to injure the
shooter.  So I don't know that early guns could have seemed to be more
effective, despite the differences in skill training.  It hardly matters
if unskilled people are able to use guns more easily than bows and
arrows, if said guns are crap weapons compared to bows, and there are
skilled archers available.


also a lot of the early
guns took a stupidly long time to reload- you miss and while you are
reloading via stuffing the gunpowder in and bullet, your enemy runs up
to you and stabs you in the face. so I'm not really sure what you based
that comment on, Sanunes.


They might have been a faster reload than the crossbows that you had to crank, but not by much.

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My staff is my gun! I don't bring knives to gunfights

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KiwiQuiche wrote...

Silfren wrote...

Sanunes wrote...

Honestly the orginal firearms aren't that effective, but what made them seem to be effective is a person who isn't trained was able to use a firearm better then a bow and arrow and it was faster to reload then a crossbow.  Most of the time the person died from wounds other then being shot such as infection or the internal damage, but who knows how the Darkspawn would react to something like that.

As far as being an equalizer for the mages, I could see the Arcane Duelist being kinda OP.


Bows were more efficient than early guns, more accurate and better at piercing armor, and with less chance of malfunctioning to injure the shooter.  So I don't know that early guns could have seemed to be more effective, despite the differences in skill training.  It hardly matters if unskilled people are able to use guns more easily than bows and arrows, if said guns are crap weapons compared to bows, and there are skilled archers available.


also a lot of the early guns took a stupidly long time to reload- you miss and while you are reloading via stuffing the gunpowder in and bullet, your enemy runs up to you and stabs you in the face. so I'm not really sure what you based that comment on, Sanunes.

and with mages in the mix it makes even less sense; they can hurl fireballs and lightning a crapload faster and more accurate than someone with a 1st generation  gun


I was referring to the time it took to tension a crossbow, for I watched a show that they were able to fire two shots with a gun where they could only fire a single shot from a crossbow because they had to use a hand crank to tension it.  Now it might have been a later generation firearm, but they were demonstrating why the gun took over so quickly.  Of course as always my memory could be faulty.