Re: [DL] Time for an official ruling

["Alex and Heidi Johnson" <heidij31@chartermi.net>]

If I read the official rules correctly, you resolve them as two seperate
attacks.  Only automatic weapons use the burst rules.  This is the Deadlands
rules, I don't know the Hell on Earth rules.

Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Dixon" <balance@tubas.net>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: [DL] Time for an official ruling


> Follow-up: Should this be resolves as two attacks, or as a normal ROF
> weapon attack? I'm leaning towards the second solutions, as it should be
> quicker to resolve and a bit more limiting (a low role kills two
> shots.)...
>
>
> However the current rules seem to indicate that the ROF weapon rules are
> only used for semi-auto and above weapons.
>
> However I may be reading too much into things...
>
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Nils Anker Oldefar wrote:
>
> > There's seems to be a lot of confusion going on about the number of
bullets
> > a player can spray into the air per action. If a character has the edges
> > two-gun kid and two-fisted can he fire both guns twice an action
(provided
> > they're double action; or he can use single action and quick-cock them)?
In
> > the Hell On Earth core rule book it states that you can double tap a
semi
> > automatic pistol for two shots an action, but my point is that revolvers
are
> > too slow mechnically for it to be possible. Maybe we could get an
official
> > ruling on the matter. I know there's no way in hell I would ever allow
> > something like that to happen in any of my campains. (The effect of this
is
> > that a player with only three actions can empty both his guns aiming
fairly
> > good in one round (five seconds)) No matter if you use this (in my
opinion)
> > ridiculous ruling against the players, it just means that anybody who's
not
> > lawyering the rules to be a shootist would get more riddled with holes
than
> > a swiss cheese.
> > If your player has the book and you don't, Munchwolf, tell him to hand
it
> > over and read it thoroughly. If this is the revised edition rules fault,
> > then I'm glad I still have my 1997 copy to play by.
> >
> > Marshal "Trust your players not to cheat as you would trust yourself..."
> > Oldefar
> >
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