Goonhub
07-15-2017, 05:07 AM
Why not just make wizards unable to use guns, or give them a big clumsiness-style backfire chance when used by a wizard, or make a gun interfere with spellcasting in the same way that not having a staff would?
The big problem is that the wizard can fuck with the movement of everyone around them OR straight-up turbofuck someone who can't move well enough to avoid it, but their ability to combine them is restricted by cooldowns. A gun can easily act as a cooldown-free replacement for either one of those spells. That way, instead of magic-missiling a crowd, hitting a couple of people with spells, and then bailing out, the wizard can magic-missile a crowd and then unload into them with a shotgun.
The big problem is that the wizard can fuck with the movement of everyone around them OR straight-up turbofuck someone who can't move well enough to avoid it, but their ability to combine them is restricted by cooldowns. A gun can easily act as a cooldown-free replacement for either one of those spells. That way, instead of magic-missiling a crowd, hitting a couple of people with spells, and then bailing out, the wizard can magic-missile a crowd and then unload into them with a shotgun.