Re: Impressions!
... mm, I think your idea, Badger, suffers a bit from reading a bit too much into things.
For one thing, Japan in the 15th-16th centuries was _anything_ but complacent (that's the Warring States period). Now, if you were saying that Europe in the 15th-17th centuries would be complacent like Japan was in the 17th-19th centuries, that would be better. However, the Tokugawa shogunate focused _all_ of its energy into preserving itself, and did so by numerous methods. The one I am most knowledgeable about is the _sankin kotai_, or the system of alternate attendance. I really wouldn't call Japan 'complacent' in that period, even so, so much as 'peaceful'.
And I'm not sure, but I do believe you can mod a 'base' spell into a national spell, so that only certain nations have access to it. If you can do this for one spell, you should be able to do it for all of them.
And, really, if you took away gunpowder, you would also have to take away not only the consequences of it, but the steps that led to it. And that, really, is impractical to describe from our current standpoint.
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