Re: [DL] The Little Ramirez

["Nick Zachariasen" <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>]

> One of my players has an idea for a gun that he wants his new mexican
character, Ramon Diaz Ramirez (quite a name, huh?), to start with for his
Belongin's 2. It is basically a sixgun, except that it lauches ALL SIX shots
with one pull of the trigger. Player insists that something like this has
existed, and that it malfunctioned 7 out of 10 times. Didn't sell much, he
claims. I wonder why.
>
> Now, this partcullar gun was made by Ramon's brother, a mad scientist, and
these are the stats I've come up for "the Little Ramirez", as they call it:
>
> Little Ramirez:
>
> Shots: 6
> Speed: 1
> RoF: 6
> Damage: 3d6 per shot
> Range: 10
> Malfunction: 16
> Minor - Gun jammed. A fair (5) Thinkerin' roll fixes it
> Major - Misfire. The chamber is ruined, and the gun cannot be fired untill
it is replaced
> Catastrophe - Gun explodes! The weapon is utterly ruined, and does 6d6
damage to the user
>
> +2 to Shootin', one additional shot hits per raise

First, if it's supposed to malfunction 7 times out of 10, the Relability
would be 13.  Second, I wouldn't give the +2 to Shootin'.  I'd say that a
gun like this would be harder to shoot, and thus work it like the Gatling
Pistol, requiring at least one raise to hit.

Nick "everyone's a critic" Zachariasen

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