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if we have guns and cannons we need really really big gunpowder-filled bombs

Yeah... and if you have gunpowder filled bombs you you'll need missles, nuclear weapons, laser swords, death stars and finally you end up every jerk running around with hactars ultimate weapon (that would connect every major sun in the universe through a hyperspace junction, causing every star to go supernova) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_characters_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Hactar
Well and then... one day a nooby runs into an especially fierce rat and BOOOM thats it with the noobie, the sewers, hydlaa, Yliakum and everything...
(we are definitly missing some flashing and smoking exploticons to add into this text!)
In short: I think bows and throwing weapons are really sufficient.

I think the magic-powder gun from the Faerun campaigns of Dungeons and Dragons were neat! And how the hell would guns lead to
the Death Star and... wtf was it... a Hactar? I mean, we don't even know if certain elements would work the same in magic realms
as it does in the real world, to blow the $%!& out the @$$, we don't even know if what we're all mentioning is even close to
being accurate, because all we are really looking at is Star Wars when we should focus on PlaneShift.
  How in Laanx's name did the mentioning of projectile weapons did we get NOOB?!?!

Yay, everything is working, I even made my first character... thanks for the help!