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For more action I'm attempting to use the Fray Dice from Scarlet Heroes. Not more durable; but more capable of dropping lower level critters.

Just allows me to throw more at them though, which means more dice to hit them with.

Well I might be grabbing 8-10 of those dice sets, just to get christmas shopping out of the way.

I don't see any mention of the GM mat with this listing though, is that not going to happen or is it getting shuffled in with something else?

Yeah, that's pretty much what I was thinking. Though I also wondered about using the SHP to determine a sort of damage reduction.

This will all be something I work at in my downtime tonight at work.

I'd be interested in looking over what you've done for magic retention. I've been trying to dabble in the same; my players are more comfortable with the magic spam of 3.5/pf so switching to LotFP is proving a challenge for them as spells are fewer.

My own interest falters about the Napoleonic War so I understand that; but what little I know is that guns didn't go through much in the way of advancement tell the civil war, save the afore mentioned percussion cap which allowed the weapon to fire in wet conditions. Most weapons throughout the 19th century were still flintlocks or flintlocks converted to percussion caps.

Though I could be wrong.

I'll have to talk to a friend of mine that has far more of an interest in that era then I.

EDIT:

And my friend makes a fool out of me. On the development side of things, in addition to what's been stated, there is also the metallic cartridge which allowed for repeating weapons, the telescopic site and rifling became standard for firearms.

So yeah, that would make things more difficult then I had originally thought.

If you're looking for a book that provides you with a base for real world development of gunpowder I don't think you can go wrong with Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology by Bert S. Hall.

I read it and found it useful for creating out my own firearm rules as it discusses the changing of cavalry from the heavy lance to the utilisation of a brace of pistols. The development of gunpowder and how the changes in production actually gave rise to a weapon usable by a single individual instead of the hulking cannons that dominated the early history of gunpowder.

Another book which I just received and looks interesting, but I haven't read through yet, is The Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy, 1363-1477 by Robert Douglas Smith and Kelly DeVries.

Since folks are sharing their firearm rules I might as well indulge and share my own.

For my setting I've decided to include both Matchlock and Wheellock firearms with just handguns and longarms.

Handgun 1d6+1d4(!)  <20' <50' <80' Reload 1 Turn, ignore 2 AC

Longarm 1d8+1d4(!) <50' <150' <300' Reload 2 Turn, ignore 4 AC

Cost.
Matchlock Handgun 30 sp
Matchlock Longarm 35 sp

Wheellock Handgun 45 sp
Wheellock Longarm 50 sp

Matchlocks give -1 to surprise, smell of the burning cord.
Wheelocks can only be purchased in City and if damaged can only be repaired in City.
Firearms provoke moral test in first round of combat, unless foes are used to them.
Firearms produce smoke centred on the user. After the first round is fired vision is restricted. Ranged attacks at short range take -2, medium -4 and long -6

A bullet costs 2 cp.
Gunpowder is divided into Knollen and Mealed
Knollen is 70 cp lb = 7 shots worth
Mealed is 40 cp lb = 5 shots worth