Hobbits with pistols

[Havard]

A number of the original players were 20th century types that arrived in Blackmoor thru something strange like the Bermuda Triangle. They arrived with some modern weapons and stuff. I think Wesley and Maker arrived in a small plane that crashed. I am not sure of the details any more, though.

Are you thinking about the Icelandic Cave adventureGreg, or are those two separate things?

Anyway, that probably explains the presence of firearms in the early campaign as you are saying. Published versions of the setting tend to attribute technological weapons etc to the Valley of the Ancients or the Temple of the Frog.

Back to the original questions:

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?

Another great find! Although Greg is probably spot on with where those items came from, but I do like the idea of pistols being popular among Hobbits.

Also recall that Muskets were available in the equipment lists in the FFC, so it could be adaptations from that?

-Havard