So guns...

Its also weird to note that the biggest obstacle to this thing is how slow such guns would neccessarily fire and how primitive this would be. This wouldn't turn Dragon Age into a shooter, that would be silly. But the game which has been a recent proof of concept for the feasibility of such a thing is...Greedfall. All that game's other problems it did balance gun combat with traditional sword play rather nicely.

Guns?

Only if...



...you never know when you have to take down the next archdemon from over 2km.

I always wondered why mages could not just leviatate themselves up in the air a bit and then start throwing fireballs.

I'm fresh out of fucks. Let's put in attack planes.

I really don't want them either but I was just pointing that out. That said I would only support it if they kept it very primitive and gave the gun severe handicaps. Like it does very high damage to a single target especially heavily armed targets but takes three times as long to reload as a bow and has to be used at a closer range then the bow. Of course most may see mages as a way to not bother with guns as they can do better then the primitive guns did. Their main benefit was they could easily be taught to use them and they went right through plate armor or hit hard enough to break ribs and thus incapacitate them. A Mage can tear through armor using electricity,fire, and other stuff so that need isn't pressing for tevinter and Orlais is to stuck up to take away the honor that comes with being a knight or whatever.

Nah, when I want guns, tactics and explosions, I play Mass Effect. Let's leave Dragon Age to magic, bows, and brute strength.

I'm usually against firearms in CRPG's, but I have to admit they worked really well in Pillars of Eternity. They did not make melee fighters obsolete yet they were quite usable for ranged characters. Right now I would not be entirely against injecting a tiny bit of steampunk-ish / early renaissance atmosphere into Dragon Age, especially not after seeing the recent artwork of the very technologically developed areas of Thedas. Early firearms could work.

Also besides all that, since gaatlok (sp?) and cannons is a thing there is NO WAY the Qunari have not thought about using it in small handheld versions on the battlefield, especially against the heavily armored chevaliers. Its completely illogical. Since Bioware introduced cannons and their version of gunpowder they have opened the box of Pandora in terms of firearms. 


And heck, it would not be that bad. 16th century battles just had everything, heavy armor, cavalry charges, pikes, firearms, cannons, swords, rapiers, awesome hats, colorful uniforms - you name it. 

Don't blame me, blame Mousestalker.

I was talking more in terms of gameplay then historical accuracy. That for one limitation or another they might not be able to have both guns and bows. Though they will probably go with what's familiar in that case.

I think they'd treat it very similarly - giving you the option to have a slow very powerful ranged weapon vs. a quick reloading medium-power ranged weapon, effectively resulting in the same DPS for base non-magical versions of those weapons. Heck, make it more interesting yet fair and give firearms the edge against armor and bows/crossbows the edge in damage against unarmored foes.