If I remember correctly, gunpowder doesn’t work in FR. Magical smokepowder is the equivalent. Will gunpowder from other worlds of the multiverse (like Earth) work in FR? No. ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 29, 2019
Rats. There goes my idea of Nazis trying to take over FR.
Heh. If you can somehow accumulate sufficient quantities of jewellers' rouge (buffing/shining abrasive), that works as gunpowder in Amber (Roger Zelazny), and back in the day, he and I agreed that applied to the Realms, too. TSR (Brian Thomsen, Dave Sutherland) approved.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 29, 2019
I remember Amber and Zelazny fondly EG. Nice to know there were others fond of his work
It’s your campaign. Do literally anything you want.
Saying gunpowder don’t exist is like saying puppies do t exist either
The forgotten realms is real life plus the magic, minus the gunpowder
This is messed up, especially given how gunpowder chemistry works, and how many industries (or trades) wouldn’t function without those components…
Potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulphur are pretty damned common, and fundamental to the world mechanics…
Why do we care what that creep thinks about games he’s not a part of?