[@Slamurai] I wouldn't say that magic makes guns redundant. I think that results from a bit of a misconception - the idea that guns were significantly more powerful than other weapons of the time. In many universes, magic is an elite field. Guns, by contrast, were designed for the exact opposite purpose - they were a weapon that was generally cheaper than higher-end crossbows, while requiring none of the training a bow required. Guns wouldn't have proliferated at all initially if it weren't for their ease of use, because a trained bowman was better in almost every way that mattered at the time (the biggest ones being reliability, rate of fire, and accuracy at range), especially when it came to the much more frequent smaller skirmishes in comparison to bigger battles. A gun would be something you'd more likely see in the hands of a redshirt than in the hands of a hero - beyond all the other issues they had, having to take half a minute to reload between each shot wouldn't make for particularly gripping action scenes.

Like I said, though, I accept it, and I'm still interested in joining (I'm actually typing up a nation draft right now). I just had to talk about that particular detail - magic would make [i]bows[/i] redundant if we're considering purely destructive capability.

...on that note, is [i]black powder[/i] allowed, when not used with guns? Or would explosions be limited to magical means?