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Originally Posted by Theron

It does have alchemical firearms. IIRC, they're pretty rare, as are the people capable of producing and maintaining them. Ptolus has a definite vibe running through it of being in the shadow of greater times past, so there's a lot of powerful mojo left from earlier times that doesn't work (or doesn't work correctly) because the knowledge to keep it running has been lost.

Not sure I'd call them rare. There is a store in Ptolus that sells them. A trifle expensive, but no more so than other exotic ranged weapons (like the repeating crossbow). Certainly, plenty of the NPCs in the book are toting a dragon pistol or two. However, technology in general is on the decline but most of what has been lost are the really fantastic stuff like aelectricity and the more complicated industrial machines.