[DL] The dreaded Gatling debate [Shane, HELP!]

["Jeff Shoffner" <shoffner@usit.net>]

And the sky shall shake with a thunderous sound as the houses of two
brothers did doth argue mightily over the verse of the lord oh mighty.
Yeah, unto thee, lord, speaketh to me, how shall thy word be interpreted?


Plain English;  "Yo, Shane!  Does a Gatling have a ROF of one burst of three
bullets or a ROF of three burst, three bullets each?"

Jeff S


>The marshall said unto the players "I shall run a Bad-
>Ass Deadlands game, make thee up charaters ugly as
>sin, vengfull and bloodthirsty, make thee up
>charaters who were unloved by thier mothers and with
>no goal but to kill things. And so the players made
>up Bad-Ass charaters, one of which was a figure
>desinged to intimidate, a 7 foot giant covered in the
>scars of the artillery shell that had torn his right
>arm away and the seared and puckered flesh from the
>burning house that he had been left to die in. His
>shoulder bears a articulated mechanical arm engraved
>with images from the darkest chapters of the bible
>and clutched in the metalling claw that is now his
>hand is the most feared hand gun in the west, a
>gattling pistol
>
>Yet in every gun fight the two other charaters with
>two peacemakers out shoot him every time.
>
>With a good shootin': automatics and a roll of 15 at
>close range the gattling pistol can hit with 3
>bullets.
>
>With the same skills and range and a 4 rolls of 7 a
>charater with two-fisted can hit with 4 bullets for
>the same 3d6 damage.
>
>Any yahoo can pick up two guns and with 2 rolls of 7
>and two rolls of 11 can can hit 4 times with lower
>rolls then the gattlin', and they dont even have to
>buy the belongin':gattling pistol or Two gun kid.
>
>I would think that a clock work gun can turn a
>revolving barrel and flip back a hammer 9 times in
>the same ammount of time that a human can pull a
>trigger twice.
>
>Let a gattling have a ROF or 3 with each one being a
>burst of three bullets, with raiseing negative after
>each burst the gun will probally only hit 3 or 4
>times and 9 bullets spraying into a room will support
>the reputation the gattling is supposed to have.
>
>And after 9 shots the guns empty and takes forever to
>reload, making it pretty game balanced.
>
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