Would the peasant railgun be possible in GURPS?

[malloyd]

My feeling hasn't changed - I don't think it works even in the D&D RAW, even without a GM call. It requires an obviously false assumption that when each person receives the item it somehow retains a large velocity relative to them, which pretty clearly violates any sensible definition of holding or catching or any similar word.

I suppose you could interpret the RAW to indicate the object accelerates and decelerates to and from greater than 2 line length/turn length number of people times in a turn, which for a sufficiently long line will destroy the projectile. That's nonsensical too but doesn't seem to violate the natural or technical meaning of any of the words in the rule.