Questions tagged [firearms]
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How would you design a firearm for a fairy?
Suppose that you have a setting with a late 19th/early 20th century level of technology and firearms development that also has fantasy races.
Suppose further that one of these races are fairies; which ...
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What about bolt-action firearms would be different on my world?
I've started with 1910s Earth but have the following changes:
The geological conditions differ such that smokeless gunpowder cannot exist or may only exist in very limited quantities. For example, ...
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How would a humanoid species with long necks design rifles?
An alien species with long necks (e.g. the Kaminoans from Star Wars) would be unable to easily aim rifles designed for humans.
Rifles require being pressed up against a shoulder to take the kickback ...
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What type of firearm is ideal in zero gravity infantry asteroid combat?
My world is similar to the cancelled game Boundary where astronauts shoot at each other in order to gain control of space stations or asteroids. They have special spacesuits with thrusters that allow ...
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How could warfare be kept using pike and shot like tactics for 700 years?
In real life the pike and shot tactics were only dominant for 150-200 years or so before the pike largely disappeared and it become mostly just musket. However, could the era of pike and shot warfare ...
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what types for guns and magic would be suited, for a arabian-style steampunk 5e setting? [closed]
I am in the process of doing a homebrew setting for 5e. That is based around a steampunk arabian aesthetic. My setting will include guns alongside magic, though both won't be common nor rare but ...
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How practical would it be to use a handgun-knife hybrid weapon?
I am writing a character for a tabletop rpg campaign in an high fantasy world which is starting a magitech revolution. She is a secret service operative and I was thinking of giving her this hybrid ...
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Why do the police forces in my world use antiquated weaponry?
Here's a little background:
My science-fantasy world has been devastated by monster attacks coming from various enormous pits inside the planet. The first led to a total collapse of civilization and ...
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is there any way to make firearms work in a fantasy setting alongside swords and armor and stuff?
So, I'll try to keep this simple. I've had an idea about adding firearms in a setting alongside sword users and the like with the caveat that everyone in this setting is capable of some type of magic. ...
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Is this diesel gun concept feasible?
Inspired by this question here regarding the possibility of gasoline firearms.
On a world that is equivalent to the Late Victorian Period technologically where smokeless or even black powder was not ...
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Lever action or primitive Bolt for an Army modernizing at speed?
About what is says on the tin. There's this Empire, which for our purposes has a general industrial capacity somewhere around that of 1910s Imperial Germany, but which for various has long neglected ...
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Which firearms should a group of people time-travelling with the intent to conquer carry if it's a one way trip on a ship [closed]
So, recently I've been recently reading Chinese web novels where a group of people travel to the past in a ship. Some of these novels have travelers' ships stranded in time while others find a portal ...
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How would a creature with third-and-second-person vision be able to wield a firearm effectively?
My urban fantasy story, set at the turn of the milennium, has a species of humanoid beings called the untethered. The most distinctive thing about them is that they lack eyes of their own. Rather than ...
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How would a 4-armed, blind species,use firearms?
My blind, intelligent species has advanced technologically to the stage of space exploration through the usage of FTL travel. The reason for their blindness is evolving underground, after the surface ...
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If humans had no access to gunpowder, what else would they use to power guns?
In my setting there's a lack of sulfur, simply put. Don't ask for the specifications, just assume that whatever amount there is, it is likely better off used in dietary supplements for the shortage of ...
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Possible mechanism for telescoping barrels
Is it a good idea?
No. A very definitive no.
However, that's not stopping a young aristocratic terrestrial cuttlefish (long story) that lives on this world's equivalent of a highly mountainous and ...
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How can I make combination weapons widespread in my world?
I'm writing a low fantasy fiction in a XVIII century-tech kind of world.
The reason of the setting is that I love early modern muzzleloading weapons, and I think guns can make fantasy more interesting....
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If you had an infinite amount of any element, which would be the best metal to make bullets?
Lead is pretty much the go-to metal when it comes to making bullets. That is because lead is cheap, dense, soft, and has a low melting point. But of course, bullets can be made out of other metals.
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Tech needed to make combustion light gas gun more feasible on specialized tanks/assault guns
I have an opponent in my setting that can only be defeated by either sustained tank gun rounds using a lot of high velocity rounds (APFSDS) or a few very high velocity rounds. Initially I planned on ...
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What level of Endurance does a player have to have to shrug off a 9mm round from a pistol? [closed]
Weird one, but here we go.
Setting:
-A modern world, with the same laws of physics/same materials, weapons, etc.
-The player is a normal human. Think baseline average American citizen that has a ...
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How would a radiation gun work? [duplicate]
I am worldbuilding my own Sci-fi story and I wanted some sort of weaponry that wasn't just a regular gun that would shoot a projectile. So I had the thought about a radiation gun that well, shoots a ...
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Monomolecular wire bolo rounds: how to make it work?
In the near-future story I'm developing, I've tried to incorporate all kind of somewhat-credible technology into weapons and gadgets.
I had the idea of what's basically two shotguns fused together, ...
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Best way to smell-proof a revolver in 1998?
My heroine, a wandering loner living a nomadic lifestyle traveling across 1998's western US in an RV, is a supernatural being, known as an immortal, with a great many useful powers. However, none of ...
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Large projectiles vs heavy personal armor
In my world personal body armor has reached a point where most weapons designers have given up trying to make cartridges that will penetrate armor, and instead have gone back to large caliber rifles ...
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How to justify guns being advanced earlier
In my world's history, firearms were developed in their medieval period, much like our world. However, they have things like culverins in the 1300s, and handgonnes that work better than in real ...
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