Old West: Shotgun pellets and missed targets

lexington · 03-26-2012, 03:46 PM

15 is five yards, so the pattern should really be about five inches across. It is is a gray area for GURPS rules since its just outside of what's known on the forum's as "Boomstick Range" which would simply treat everything as a slug.

In the real world what happens is that all the pellets hit the target.
In GURPS terms most of the pellets will miss even at 15 feet. This is an artifact of the game system (you can justify it if you wish but that's what it is) that prevents shotguns from being absurdly deadly.

03-26-2012, 03:46 PM	#9
lexington Join Date: Jan 2010	Re: Old West: Shotgun pellets and missed targets 15 is five yards, so the pattern should really be about five inches across. It is is a gray area for GURPS rules since its just outside of what's known on the forum's as "Boomstick Range" which would simply treat everything as a slug. In the real world what happens is that all the pellets hit the target. In GURPS terms most of the pellets will miss even at 15 feet. This is an artifact of the game system (you can justify it if you wish but that's what it is) that prevents shotguns from being absurdly deadly.