Why do people say that guns don't fit into fantasy?
guns are from the era of enlightenment when folklore began to die out
>>741889041it just depends on the era that the fantasy setting is locked intechnological stagnation is a staple of fantasy, so a setting locked in medieval times should not have firearmsa setting locked in the age of sail for example can have guns and it works fine
fantasy is swords and armor and shit, are you fucking retarded
>>741889041Because if you can explode people by just looking/pointing at them guns are fucking obsolete
>>741891745Guns first appeared way before the start of the enlightenment era tho, full plate armor depicted in all fantasy works requires a higher technology level than early guns.
They believe homosexuality to be more fitting for the age than firearms.
>>741889041Its fundamentally uncreative for fantasy, for sci fi its perfectly fine to have things like melee in tandem with guns, but in fantasy? Its like establishing that tanks with machine guns exist, and yet there is somehow still peasants with bows marching around. Its fucking dumb.Everyone should be using guns if they are in the setting, or they shouldnt be there. Its always gamey as fuck to make them "work" in fantasy, where it makes no sense from a world building perspective and is just a mechanical thing. Most of the time its just a high damage ranged weapon, so its just a ranged weapon, it could just be a bow.
>>741892592Your average army can only have a fraction of its forces as mages capable of doing that.The gun gives your average footsoldier the capability to instantly drop enemies just as easily, if not faster than a mage casting a spell.
>>741892841>>741893149So it's based on a fundamental misundestanding of how historical guns worked?
>>741889041>my BMW with optional heated seats
>>741892841its a production issue
>>741894183Kindof, its like the lack of understanding that the setting establishing the invention of cars would replace the use of the horses in a world, so why the fuck is everyone still using horses now that they are driving cars. If they have both they havent thought it through and just put it in there because its something they know. It ALWAYS reeks of the kind of fantasy that doesnt understand history and would cram machine guns into their setting just because they like guns, and never spare a thought for how a world has a goblin problem when it has m60s and power armour.Its always gamey as fuck when they are included in fantasy games, there is no logical reason to have someone using a bow when they can use a gun. Thats how you get the gamey part, where its just numbers, the gun just does more damage than a crossbow, a bow does less damage but shoots faster etc. This is just game shit and not conducive to a coherent fantasy world where its just ignoring why things would exist. It stops feeling like a mythologic world and more like a bunch of pop culture stuff shoved in.
ww1 had horsed lancers for your information
Renaissance is objectively the superior fantasy inspiration, most modern fantasy writers end up taking inspiration form it anyway without realizing(because modern fantasy writers are retarded and historically illiterate and only rip off other fantasy instead of coming up with things themselves and thinking critically about the details of their world).Guns exist, but they're slow, clunky, and stupidly inaccurate, and they can't reliably defeat armor yet, so they share the battlefield with traditional heavy knights in full plate armor. Fashion is insane and you have mercenaries dressed like clowns wandering the world looking for adventure, and the natural order of battlefield tactics has been completely upset so you'll still sometimes see stuff like shield walls, massed bowmen, horse archers, wagon forts, etc. With a little suspension of disbelief you can justify basically anything in an early renaissance inspired setting.
