09-10-2015, 01:14 AM
From the "Which Era of Blackmoor do you find most interesting?" thread:
Reading DA1, I was struck that Mello has a pair of wands of lightening bolts each with six charges. Philo has one too - again with six charges. Were these revolvers? Gygax used a similar ruse in Greyhawk to explain away Murlynd's pair of six shooters. Neither one of them can even use these wands according to BECMI rules, so like the cleric with the dagger that doubles as a steak knife, we can assume these were mentioned in Arneson's notes. Philo's write up even parenthetically states he OWNS the wand, but does not carry it.
Has anybody made this connection before and is there any specific known reason why the hobbits might have pistols?
chirine ba kal Wrote:I got two .44 Colts for the wife - she's a very handy shot, and being a telepath very rarely misses - and a dozen three-band Enfields for the lads in my household guards. (They said that the things make lousy spears; the snap-on blades are pretty poor quality.) Plenty of the little lead slinger pellets and the 'foof stuff' you pour down the tube, too.
Lots of fun for the kids, though; heaps of noise and smoke. Phil was perturbed; he hated the things and said they got his world-setting smudged.
Reading DA1, I was struck that Mello has a pair of wands of lightening bolts each with six charges. Philo has one too - again with six charges. Were these revolvers? Gygax used a similar ruse in Greyhawk to explain away Murlynd's pair of six shooters. Neither one of them can even use these wands according to BECMI rules, so like the cleric with the dagger that doubles as a steak knife, we can assume these were mentioned in Arneson's notes. Philo's write up even parenthetically states he OWNS the wand, but does not carry it.
Has anybody made this connection before and is there any specific known reason why the hobbits might have pistols?