Bit of an odd question, but do guns in Duskvol use black powder? Had a situation come up where how much smoke gets generated by firearms mattered, and none of us were on the same page. We settled on an answer that worked for us (they use black powder and make a lot of smoke) but is there a canonical one?
Bit of an odd question, but do guns in Duskvol use black powder?
Bit of an odd question, but do guns in Duskvol use black powder?
I believe the overall usage is blackpowder, but I’m not sure the “canon” speaks directly to the issue. Way before there was much codification of worldbuilding, I speculated about this.
https://fictivefantasies.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/blades-in-the-dark-guns/
There’s no canonical answer.
Love Blades’ Swiss cheese canon. So few games manage to find the right balance between providing inspiring setting details (minimising the prep work a GM has to do) and giving players the space to be creative without feeling overly restricted. Blades comes as close to walking that tightrope as any game I’ve come across. Awesome job on that.
According to Wikipedia, smokeless powder was developed in the late 1800s, so given the general Industrial Revolution (early 1800s) feel of the setting, it may be a bit beyond. However, this is exactly the sort of thing an enterprising Leech might set about trying to invent via one or more Long Term Projects.
At my table, I play it as guns belch tons of smoke. It adds this fun element where as the shooting is going on, it’s generating obscuring cover that makes things even more dangerous and unknown for everyone involved. I find guns that cover the battlefield in “fog of war” to fit the foreboding atmosphere of Duskvol.
What kind of smoke do eltroplasmic rounds make?! Oooooh.
It hasn’t come up much but I’m making them smokeless to differentiate from our recent campaign in 17th century Germany.
It occurs that you might occasionally encounter some mad-tech like a Gauss gun or such as well.
I like that there’s not a pre-set answer. The game I was talking about, black powder worked, but it’s great that we can make a different decision for another game.