Common mistakes about gunpowder in fantasy worldbuilding #1: going straight from no gunpowder to the modern rifle

Wow. All right. That’s one mouthful of a title. But anyway, that pretty much describes what I’m going to go over in this post: one of the most common mistakes I see in how people try to treat/insert/wangle gunpowder and gunpowder weaponry into their fantasy stories, and maybe — if I’m not too lazy — some ideas on how to avoid them. The first and the most glaring of these mistakes is when a fantasy world goes from no gunpowder at all to modern rifles in a single leap.

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