An excellent treatment of early firearms for 4E. Includes four new feats, nine firearm types, four powers, and three new items.

This little supplement provides a great way to add firearms to your D&D 4e campaign without unbalancing it or making more traditional fantasy ranged weapons obsolete. Author Matt James gives well-balanced statistics for nine specific firearms, and includes three magical firearms to boot. He also includes four powers related to the use of firearms, but doesn’t actually explain how DMs should allow characters to access these powers; since a simple ranged basic attack covers firing a firearm, these shouldn’t just be “free access” powers like the basic attacks. Although only four pages long, the supplement suffers noticeably from grammatical and typographical errors.

This is a nice supplement to integrate flintlock pistols and muskets into your 4E game. I like the idea of having firearms in my campaign in a way that isn't overpowered and can be integrated without ruining game balance. The reload time is what makes the damage and brutal status not too powerful. Just like in the pirate age, you likely get a shot off and then go back to the sword before you are gutted. For a buck fifty, this supplement provides several firearms options and even a few magic versions to choose from. They'll show up in my New World campaign in a limited way (don't want too many guns out there) soon.