RE: [DL] question about pistols and speed

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net 
> [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net] On Behalf Of Brett Dixon
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 3:07 PM
> To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: [DL] question about pistols and speed
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 03:02  PM, Jeff Yates wrote:
> 
> > If you stick with only what's been published in a book with 
> an orange
> > cover,
> > then the rule is single action pistols fire once a card, or can be 
> > fanned
> > (and fanning is merely an particular way to use your 
> shootin' skill, 
> > it is
> > no longer a separate skill of it's own) while double action pistols 
> > can be
> > fired twice per card.
> 
> I may have misread the appropriate section, but i thought Fannin' had 
> morphed into the Gunplay skill from law Dogs, which covers a range of 
> special tricks.


Hmmmm... In my mind I had Fannin' part of Shootin' because it's mostly a way
to kill opponents, whereas Gunplay was more trick shootin' and less about
just wanting something dead.  Now I'll have to go look it all up...

But we agreed on the strict issue of weapon speeds as applied to both types
of pistols, and answered the original question.  That's something.

:-)

Jeff Y.