One of my players wants to make a gunslinger, and I want to let him. I have read through the rules and now have a superficial understanding of them. However, I've never seen firearms in play. How is the gameplay different with early firearms versus advanced firearms? Obviously advanced firearms are faster, more reliable, and more deadly at further ranges. But how does this actually play out in the game? What's the power balance like between the two? How about compared to archery?
Apologies if this has been discussed on the forums before, but I couldn't find anything. Thanks in advance.
With my limited experience of having one gunslinger in my party, I would restrict it to early firearms. However, as the dm you could award the player with an advanced one later on in the campaign. I would liken it to another character finding a talking sword or a unique artifact.
From what I understand (forum reading not actual experience), gunslinger is very comparable in damage with all the other classes and has a few tricks of its own, and that's with early firearms.
So I would guess with advanced they pull by all the others.
I mean there's a reason guns replaced swords almost completely once we got into the "advanced firearms" age.
Thanks, guys. I think I wills start out with early firearms, and then maybe award an advanced one as an award later on.
There is the tank archtype of pistilero in our campagin. The GM let him have the advanced firearms.
Basically, he almost neverm misses. But our group can deal with it relatively well. Probably at least partially because his tactics are so bad he kind of self limits how effective he can be.
I would recommend against the advanced firearms if you have any concerns if one character does significantly more damage than the others.