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

["Clint Black" <cblack@ohtinc.com>]

>>>Interesting, our gunslinger tried fanning a few times and found it was
pretty much ineffectual. <<

>Really?  The guy playing a gunslinger in our game fans quite a bit and does
>craploads of damage.  Keep in mind he has a tendancy to roll raises a lot.
I
>remember one time he had like 75 damage on one target before I told him to
quit
>rolling because the mook was dead anyway.  That plus the 15 or so from his
first
>shot, we didn't even bother with his last four (three of which hit the
target).
>I find fanning works good against things that resist damage really well.
Six
>bullets in a werewolf is as good as three in a normal guy.  It's also
easier to
>fill an undead full of shots to the guts (the most likely place to hit on a
>randomly determined hit location) with fannin' (-2 to each shot IIRC) and
>incapacitate him and then take a second to reload and pop him a few times
in the
>head at point blank than to call a shot to the head (-4 or -6 I can't
remember,
>that's what I get for relying on my Marshal's screen instead of memorising
>them).  Of coarse, I don't tell my players this, but they're clever enough
to
>figure it out on their own.


Let me get this straight, this guy has a "tendency" to roll 30+ on his
shootin' checks?  And that doesn't even count range?

I have a proposition for you.  Get me his dice any way you can, and you can
name your price.  ;-)

Seriously, exactly how do you run fanning in your game?  When you mention
the undead, it sounds like you have him making a shooting roll for each shot
instead of one shooting roll with a raise needed for each additional shot
used to hit.  I mean the -6 penalty called shot to the head is much easier
to get than fanning 2 shots at -4 and needing a raise to hit with the second
shot.  The target number for the second shot to hit is 3 points higher than
the called shot penalty, and every shot after that is 5 points higher.


Clint Black

"You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Ghost Rock, son. Nothing else in the
world smells like that. I love the smell of ghost rock in the morning. You
know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over
I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' Yank body. The
smell, you know that sulphurous smell, the whole hill. Smelled like...
victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."