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We know how to make them and they're useful, mainline production.

4 (33.3%)

They seem out of place and run rather counter to a fantasy setting, avoid them.

2 (16.7%)

Get outta here, nerd, nobody finds guns that interesting.

1 (8.3%)

Go ahead and have the NPCs make em, but not worth player input.

1 (8.3%)

Support, but they shouldn't be the standard weapons.

4 (33.3%)

Total Members Voted: 12

[chaotic skies]

If we could figure out a magical/magitech way of storing antimatter we could create some very...interesting things. Like grenades. Antimatter grenades sound fun.

[Gwolfski]

If we could figure out a magical/magitech way of storing antimatter we could create some very...interesting things. Like grenades. Antimatter grenades sound fun.

+1

[LordPorkins]

Anything that has the words "Antimatter", "Electromagnetic" or "Extra Cheesy"  preceding it tends to be fun.

[Gwolfski]

Anything that has the words "Antimatter", "Electromagnetic" or "Extra Cheesy"  preceding it tends to be fun.

Or strawberries or Gwolf or Porkins

[chaotic skies]

Or pretty much anything not-already-in-DF for that matter

[chaotic skies]

Woops wrong thread

[Amperzand]

Antimatter grenade == tiny nuclear bomb, but probably still dangerously high yield. Not safe to throw.

[chaotic skies]

Alright. Land mines? If the magic keeps it stable enough, long-range mortar rounds? If not, figure out how to create it at a distance, and just create some right next to whoever you're fighting?

[Amperzand]

I mean, that's how you use small nukes. :V

All the issues of radiation and dubious ethics remain in place.

[LordPorkins]

dubious ethics remain in place.

Once again, let me remind everyone that this is DF. We are in a fort populated by dwarves. Ethics are for the weak. As is cleanliness and basic manners.

[Amperzand]

That's up to you, I think.

[chaotic skies]

I think the major problem is going to be containing the stuff; most of the dwarves will probably love seeing the things go off, and you yourself said making antimatter isn't too difficult. For the container we just need a good powersource and a strong container, unless it's purely magic.

[Amperzand]

There is no material you can use to hold antimatter besides more antimatter, which would itself need to be held. The physical container could as easily be glass as adamantine, for all the good it would do. You absolutely need to contain any stored antimatter using powerful and nonmaterial force fields, whether they be magical, electromagnetic, gravitational, or otherwise.

I guess you can also get it really, really, really cold, but you'd need to shield it from any inbound heat, like light, single particles of cosmic radiation, and the occasional persistent neutrino to keep it that cold.

It's extremely difficult to make, but if you have high-precision magical powers, the actual changes that need to be made are AFAIK very small.

I would actually recommend any antimatter-magic munitions make no attempt to contain it, since that would be a constant drain on energy, but rather only create it when triggered.

[chaotic skies]

If it's just a create-when-triggered thing then we don't even need to do anything to figure out how to control it; just create some on the spot when it gets to it's target. That's still probably limited to a mortar shell of some kind though. Landmines also work, but they're a bit more dangerous to have planted around the place.

[Gwolfski]

Be aware that if you make antimatter ill attempt some very theoretical science conserened with wormholes and stuffs