GURPS Shotguns Weaker at Close Range? - Page 2

ruskerdax · 01-02-2019, 04:40 PM

Hm. I suppose when you put it in perspective like that it's not wildly off base with reality, but I keep thinking someone is going to make the realization that if you weren't essentially forced to use the close-range rule, which is ostensibly better, you may actually be getting a more effective shot.

It makes a bit of sense now that you mention it. When your target is so close the shot hasn't spread so much that you're getting the same huge bonus to hit.

CthulhuBob · 06-06-2019, 06:11 AM

A bit of a tangent, but I'll ask here, rather than starting a new post.

Why is the target's DR better at extremely close range, as per p. 409? In my experience, this is not the case.

Also, After many years, I still don't understand how to apply shotgun damage. If you fire one round with a 12 GA shotgun, the damage, on p. 279, reads as 1d+1 pi, with a RoF x9. Does this mean you roll 9 separate 1d+1s, applying DR to each, 9 separate 1d+1s and add them together, or roll 1d+1 and multiply the result times 9?

The first result is entirely unrealistic, though the other two make about equal sense. I've always ruled 9d+9, but that doesn't seem, to me, to be what the table on p. 279 reads.

What is the proper method?

Thanks, and I hope this is an acceptable place to pose this question.

01-02-2019, 04:40 PM	#1
ruskerdax Join Date: Jan 2019	Re: GURPS Shotguns Weaker at Close Range? Hm. I suppose when you put it in perspective like that it's not wildly off base with reality, but I keep thinking someone is going to make the realization that if you weren't essentially forced to use the close-range rule, which is ostensibly better, you may actually be getting a more effective shot. It makes a bit of sense now that you mention it. When your target is so close the shot hasn't spread so much that you're getting the same huge bonus to hit.

06-06-2019, 06:11 AM	#2
CthulhuBob Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Missoula	Re: GURPS Shotguns Weaker at Close Range? A bit of a tangent, but I'll ask here, rather than starting a new post. Why is the target's DR better at extremely close range, as per p. 409? In my experience, this is not the case. Also, After many years, I still don't understand how to apply shotgun damage. If you fire one round with a 12 GA shotgun, the damage, on p. 279, reads as 1d+1 pi, with a RoF x9. Does this mean you roll 9 separate 1d+1s, applying DR to each, 9 separate 1d+1s and add them together, or roll 1d+1 and multiply the result times 9? The first result is entirely unrealistic, though the other two make about equal sense. I've always ruled 9d+9, but that doesn't seem, to me, to be what the table on p. 279 reads. What is the proper method? Thanks, and I hope this is an acceptable place to pose this question. __________________ CthulhuBob MisCon 34, 22nd-25th of May, 2020 www.miscon.org Talk MisCon! https://www.facebook.com/groups/225948954099351/ __________________ "Get her, that was your whole plan, get her?"