[dnd 3.5e] Renaissance/Industrial weapons?

[Edwin]

Just a warning from watching our group: If you make weapons with a long reload time, put some limits as to how many of them can be reasonably carried in a position where they can be drawn. Otherwise you get what we started doing - the PC's carry 10 loaded guns in their belt.

That's basically the only way to make the DMG guns anywhere near feasible, and even then you only get a couple of shots before you gotta get your sword swinging and clanging.

Granted, outside two armies battling, that was generally the way they did it back then. But that's not cool.