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Thanks for the reply. I went back to the text and found the reference.

Given the task, wide span of history and wild variations in specs, I think you have struck a great balance. Long arms really are for large groups and armies. They are pretty impractical for other applications. Small scale (ie player parties) a brace of pistols is really what you should be looking at.

The armour punching at all ranges is a really good way to distinguish the different long arms.

At those rates you want 2 scholars instead of 1 alchemist.

As far as I understand it, in the middle ages pursuit of alchemy was seen as trying to set up your retirement through playing roulette - the short path to bankruptcy.

If the beholder does not roll to hit, I would be inclined to say breath because you are trying to dodge the ray.

As a kind of wanky gamer philosophy thing, increasing inflation of ability scores was one of the "bad" parts of A D&D. It is like you need to be as high as this sign to take this ride. Whereas in OSR the army takes anyone who comes.

In the older rule sets the attribute scores were not so important. You roll up the stats and game on. You don't sit there rolling character after charatcer untill you get some "18"s just to make the character "playable"

My apologies, I was looking at one while thinking about the other.

With stealth working on the 1d6 scale, it is a bit tough to apply any modifiers.

Easier to simply say "No" when the conditions are unfavourable.

Cool. Cause I would rather give my money directly to you.

I really think that you want to leave open the chance that a fire arm will do only 1 point of damage. I think making them highly variable is a good thing. I would rather roll 1d10 for hand guns and 1d16 for long arms. Get 1d16 by rolling a d8 and a d6. Use the d6 to determine if you add 8 to the d8 or not.

I don't like the idea of putting a bell curve on damage, too deadly.

Niagra is not likely even a person. Save your breath mate. Registered, 2 posts. One is simple "Wow!" and the other "thankyou!". It is a bot. A spam bot at that.

If I were in your position, I would get the boxed set. I would also pick up the hardback when it comes out. It never hurts to have another set of rules at the table. The hard back is only going to be rules book. It will not have the referrees book, or the turtorial.

I would also pick up some of the adventures. Those are where the game really shines. If there aren't any of the print copies, get the pdfs.

The parts of the term "psychonaut" are pretty straight forward. "Soul Sailors" in ancient greek. They are the sailors and your soul is the boat.