The Modern Armory ยท Chapter 7
Shotguns
A shotgun fires a charge of pellets from a smooth barrel. Every 12 gauge in this chapter shares one profile: damage 8, Crit 3, Short range, Blast 4, Vicious 2, and most add Knockdown. What separates the entries is how many shots they hold and how fast they fire them.
Blast on a shotgun is the spread of the pattern: spend 2 Boons to deal the Blast damage to others Engaged with the target.
The profile assumes buckshot. Chapter 16 lists seven other shells, and changing shells changes the weapon more than changing shotguns does.
Skill: Heavy Ranged throughout.
Light Shotgun, 20 Gauge or .410
Youth and bird guns, Mossberg 500 Bantam, single-shot break actions
7 3 Short 2
Heavy Ranged 300 Common Ballistic Blast 3, Vicious 1
A lighter gauge in a lighter gun. It is the farm gun, the youth gun, and the gun kept behind a kitchen door.
One point of damage and one point of Blast below a 12 gauge, with no Knockdown, at Encumbrance 2. It takes every shell in Chapter 16 that a 12 gauge does.
Double-Barrel Shotgun
Side-by-side and over-under sporting guns, coach guns
8 3 Short 3
Heavy Ranged 300 Common Ballistic Blast 4, Knockdown, Vicious 2, Limited Ammo 2
Two barrels, two triggers, and an action with almost no moving parts. It is legal nearly everywhere a firearm is legal at all.
Full 12 gauge performance at the lowest price in the chapter. Limited Ammo 2 is the whole cost.
Sawed-Off Shotgun
Lupara, whippet gun, cut-down break actions
8 3 Short 2
Heavy Ranged 250 Restricted Ballistic Blast 4, Knockdown, Vicious 2, Limited Ammo 2, Inaccurate 1, Concealable 1
A double-barrel with the barrels cut to a hand's length and the stock cut to a grip. It is a crime to own in most places and it is made in twenty minutes with a hacksaw.
Concealable 1 on a damage 8 weapon is found nowhere else in the book. It keeps Limited Ammo 2 and adds Inaccurate 1.
Pump Shotgun
Remington 870, Mossberg 500, Ithaca 37, Winchester M1897 trench gun
8 3 Short 3
Heavy Ranged 500 Common Ballistic Blast 4, Knockdown, Vicious 2
A tube-fed repeating shotgun worked by a sliding fore-end. Police, soldiers, hunters, and householders have used the same design since the 1890s.
This is the reference shotgun: damage 8, Crit 3, Short range, Blast 4, Knockdown, Vicious 2. It has no Limited Ammo and no drawback.
Semi-Automatic Shotgun
Benelli M4, Browning Auto-5, Saiga-12, SPAS-12
8 3 Short 4
Heavy Ranged 900 Restricted Ballistic Blast 4, Knockdown, Vicious 2, Linked 1
A shotgun that reloads itself on recoil or gas. It fires as fast as the trigger can be pulled.
Linked 1: after a hit, spend 2 Boons to hit the same target once more. It adds no penalty to the attack, which is the difference from the automatic shotgun below.
Automatic Shotgun
AA-12, USAS-12, Pancor Jackhammer
8 3 Short 5
Heavy Ranged 2000 Military Ballistic Auto-Fire, Blast 4, Vicious 2, Inaccurate 1, Cumbersome 3
A magazine-fed, fully automatic 12 gauge. Few were made and fewer were issued.
Auto-Fire with shotgun damage. Inaccurate 1 and the Auto-Fire Trial Die both apply, it needs Might 3, and it weighs as much as a machine gun.
