More advanced firearms are also presented for those brave enough to mix their fantasy with a technology much closer to that of the Old West than the slow and unstable weapons that gave musketeers their name. Most of them are single-shot muzzle-loaders with highly inefficient triggering mechanisms-traditional sword and sorcery firearms. This section presents an anachronistic collection of hand-held black powder weapons. Still, a firearm remains an ominous and terrible weapon in the hands of a skilled gunman. Such weapons could cause hero or villain to falter or triumph, changing the action within the tale in a flash or a fizzle. This made firearms excellent storytelling devices. These authors likely included guns because they are exciting, but also because the guns they chose were primitive ones-relatively unpredictable weapons, prone to misfire and malfunction. Heroes like Burroughs’s John Carter or Howard’s Solomon Kane carried pistols alongside their swords, and it’s hard to imagine a pirate ship without cannons blazing. The earliest authors of fantasy and weird fiction often included guns in their stories. Figurine of Wondrous Power (Slate Spider).Firearm Ammunition and Adventuring Gear.
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