Hi,
As they player of a character who got his hands on a revolving
rifle, I will point out that fanning a rifle (or revolving shotgun) means
that the weapon is being used one handed, hence additional penalties. Only
once in the course of the game did he actually get around to fanning the
thing (while being attacked by Los Diablos). I seem to recall my GM
imposing a strength check into the bargain. (Two bullets hit which were
soaked with chips (Curses!)) That particular rifle (a cartridge conversion)
became something of an artefact within the campaign, being later passed on
to another character when the original owner died.
Daniel Gwyn
"Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They
have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days
have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to
this?"
Théoden from Peter Jackson's The Two Towers
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From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]
Sent: October 20, 2004 11:29 AM
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: RE: [DL] Fanning, Single and Double action pistols and now even
more
Somewhere in the books it says that lever action long arms can be "fanned"
with the same penalties as a pistol. The rifles actually have an advantage
in having more rounds per load so you aren't gonna be empty as fast.
In play we only had one hang up. Non-lever action rifles didn't seem
shafted by being slower to fire. The hitch was the lever action shotgun
that was found. Damn that made a mess of a bad guy on a good shootin' roll.
'Course it only held four rounds, so it did empty quick. I'm not familiar
with the weapon in real life history, whether it had reliability issues or
not. I did rule that it had to use metal cased shotgun rounds -- whether
factual or not I decided that the paper cased rounds might crumple or
deform. This weapon was no more of a problem than the one Colt revolving
rifle with insanely high damage dice... and I could always use them
_against_ the players...
Jeff Y.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net
[mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:14 AM
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: RE: [DL] Fanning, Single and Double action pistols
and now even more
As I look at what I am wanting to do about SA and DA pistols I am
realizing that I also don't want to leave repeating rifles, such as the
Winchester behind. Has anyone that has changed the rule had a problem with
this.
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