Shotguns are an interesting beast in any game, and GURPS is no exception. A while back – Jan 2014 – I posted some alternate stats for shotguns, using my ballistics program. Some recent questions on that particular post – over a year ago, plus the fact that actually shooting shot from a shotgun, as opposed…
+Harold Bauerle had an interesting comment/idea in response to my post yesterday. He posited . . . well, I’ll just quote his idea in full: Totally off the top of my head, but what if there was a stat whereby if you fired too many shot with a weapon it became Unready, and would need to…
Over on the SJG forums, there’s an interesting (if long) debate over the observation that all things being equal, it’s always better to fire lots of bullets at a target than just one, or even a short burst. The Example For example, let’s take a 500-yard shot, made by someone with Guns(Rifle)-13. That might seem…