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A character in my group demanded an Ithaca Roadblocker for his character, and having the time, I obliged. I just thought I'd share it for anyone who was interested.

Ares ASG-3 “Roadblocker”
This is the most powerful commercially produced semiautomatic shotgun available today. The Roadblocker is a very large and heavy weapon, intended for use at roadblocks where it would not, presumably, be carried for extended periods. The Roadblocker uses custom anti-vehicular ammunition, and is used primarily to disable fleeing vehicles. It is available only to certified law enforcement and military organizations.
The gas system is located at the front of the magazine tube, limiting the Roadblocker’s ammunition capacity to two rounds, and one in the firing chamber. Another aspect of the gas system is its counter-recoil design called “countercoil” by the manufacture.
The Roadblocker is available only to certified law enforcement and military purchasers.

Ares ASG-3
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Conceal Ammo Mode Damage Weight Availability  Cost   Street Index Legal RC
   3    2(m)  SA    8D     8     14/12 Days  1,925¥        3      2-PF  2


The Roadblocker is a large caliber weapon, and as such, incurs a +2 recoil penalty. The heavy barrel and innovative gas system of the Roadblocker effectively negate the +2 recoil penalty afforded by its heavy caliber. The custom ammunition for the Roadblocker costs 600¥ per box of 10 with a Street Index and Availability of 14/12 Days and 2 respectively. Treat the custom ammunition for this weapon as AV rounds, as per the rules on pg. 36 of the Cannon Companion.

<<<Developer’s Notes
This weapon is obviously based on the real life Ithaca MAG-10 “Roadblocker”. For purposes of game play for Shadowrun, I have modified the basic design I created from the Cannon Companion by borrowing from the Barret Model 121 sniper rifle. My guiding principals were; the weapon must be capable of *possibly* taking out a car in one solid shot, it must compete with Shadowrun shotguns with higher Power levels that also offer Burst Fire, it must be expensive and difficult to obtain, and it must be balanced.

As such:
  • Low ammo capacity helps to balance this weapon.
  • Although not all groups worry about weight, this weapon weighs approximately 17lbs unloaded.
  • It is considered a military grade weapon.
  • It is difficult to obtain, and is expensive.

In addition, with clues gained in an arcane process, I decided that for roughly the equivalent of two levels of Increased Power, you could exchange the +2 Power level for and increased Damage Level. However, doing so requires the weapon uses custom ammunition, and suffer +2 for recoil. I used the rules for custom ammunition as presented for the Barret Model 121, with the following results: Whereas the Barret’s ammunition is based on standard APDS, it’s cost is roughly 2.8 times the cost for APDS. Hence, the Roadblockers ammunition is based on standard AV ammunition, so by the same logic the Roadblocker’s custom ammunition is 571.43¥, which rounded for game’s sake I decided should be 600¥. The Street index and Availability was taken as is, but reflects the fact that regardless of the particular model the weapon uses the same ammunition.>>>

An Alternate Version Designed Strictly From CC

Ares ASG-3 “Roadblocker”
One of the most powerful commercially produced semiautomatic shotgun available today. The Roadblocker is a very large and heavy weapon, intended for use at roadblocks where it would not, presumably, be carried for extended periods. The Roadblocker uses typically uses anti-vehicular ammo, and its primary role is to quickly disable fleeing vehicles.
The gas system is located at the front of the magazine tube, limiting the Roadblocker’s ammo capacity to five rounds, and one in the firing chamber. Another aspect of the gas system is its counter-recoil design called “countercoil” by the manufacture.
The Roadblocker is available only to certified law enforcement and military purchasers.

Ares ASG-3
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Conceal Ammo Mode Damage Weight Availability  Cost   Street Index Legal RC
   3    5(m)  SA    10S   5.5     8/8 Days   1,800¥        1       4-PF 1


Having presented this with a light heart, is there anyone who would like to offer any constructive criticisms?
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- Big Crow   A Shotgun For Your Amusement   Jan 6 2004, 04:37 AM
- - kevyn668   Yep, make yourself a Troll mage and saw the stock ...   Jan 6 2004, 05:03 AM
- - Big Crow   QUOTE (kevyn668)Yep, make yourself a Troll mage an...   Jan 6 2004, 05:31 AM
- - Fortune   QUOTE (Big Crow) Sawing through an intregal gas-re...   Jan 6 2004, 06:37 AM
- - Big Crow   QUOTE (Fortune) QUOTE (Big Crow @ Jan 6 2004,...   Jan 6 2004, 07:06 AM
- - Fortune   That's all fine and dandy, but the stock of a ...   Jan 6 2004, 07:15 AM
- - 3Threes   read carefully and you will see he (kevyn668) said...   Jan 6 2004, 07:24 AM
- - toturi   Doesn't the stock provide RC?   Jan 6 2004, 07:49 AM
- - Fortune   Not by way of Gas Venting!   Jan 6 2004, 07:52 AM
- - Arethusa   No. Welcome to the wonderful world of Wacky Ass S...   Jan 6 2004, 07:53 AM
- - Fortune   QUOTE (Arethusa) Normal stocks don't. Unle...   Jan 6 2004, 07:59 AM
- - Arethusa   Which is wacky ass!   Jan 6 2004, 08:13 AM
- - BumsofTacoma   I give my players RC if the gun has a stock and th...   Jan 6 2004, 10:09 AM
- - kevyn668   yep, I said "stock". I figured, hey you...   Jan 6 2004, 03:30 PM
- - Big Crow   QUOTE (kevyn668)yep, I said "stock". ...   Jan 6 2004, 04:50 PM
- - Kagetenshi   Not canon, but I would personally just reverse the...   Jan 6 2004, 05:33 PM
- - StealthBanana   It's a shotgun... designed to take out cars? O...   Jan 6 2004, 05:46 PM
- - fourstring_samurai   don't forget that SR shotguns use slug rounds,...   Jan 6 2004, 05:56 PM
- - kevyn668   QUOTE Big Crow Posted on Jan 6 2004, 04:50 PM ...   Jan 6 2004, 05:57 PM
- - Austere Emancipator   StealthBanana: It is based on an actual, RL weapon...   Jan 6 2004, 06:06 PM
- - Tanka   QUOTE (kevyn668) <snip>I figured, hey you...   Jan 6 2004, 08:57 PM
- - kevyn668   @ tanka: sorry. :sheepishgrin: its been a while.   Jan 6 2004, 09:19 PM
- - Tanka   QUOTE (kevyn668) @ tanka: sorry. :sheepishgrin: i...   Jan 6 2004, 09:23 PM
- - Foreigner   kevyn668: The muzzle velocity of a 12-gauge slug ...   Jan 6 2004, 11:05 PM
- - Raygun   Let me first apologize for my criticism here. I fe...   Jan 7 2004, 12:01 AM
- - Kagetenshi   Zapper strips, R3. Not very expensive, IIRC, and d...   Jan 7 2004, 12:07 AM
- - Voorhees   On a shotgun, uncompensated recoil is doubled, so ...   Jan 7 2004, 12:11 AM
- - Kagetenshi   I believe you can; it just prevents the use of sho...   Jan 7 2004, 12:29 AM
- - Raygun   QUOTE (Voorhees) On a shotgun, uncompensated recoi...   Jan 7 2004, 01:22 AM
- - Fortune   QUOTE (Raygun @ Jan 7 2004, 12:22 PM) I don...   Jan 7 2004, 02:28 AM
- - Raygun   I kind of wrote my own. IMO, CC took guns in mor...   Jan 7 2004, 02:59 AM
- - kevyn668   @ Foreigner: Cool, thanks...I really need that :...   Jan 7 2004, 03:10 AM
- - Foreigner   kevyn668: No problem. (Or, if you prefer, ...   Jan 7 2004, 04:23 AM
- - kevyn668   "Meh, thats sooo 2053... " I actually...   Jan 7 2004, 04:30 AM
- - Foreigner   Big Crow: I have a suggestion. If all your playe...   Jan 7 2004, 02:34 PM
- - Austere Emancipator   QUOTE Supposedly, our military liked to use them i...   Jan 7 2004, 02:51 PM
- - Foreigner   Austere Emancipator: I admit that I was a little...   Jan 7 2004, 04:00 PM
- - Austere Emancipator   I wasn't even born when Vietnam was going on. ...   Jan 7 2004, 04:28 PM
- - Raygun   QUOTE (Foreigner @ Jan 7 2004, 02:34 PM) I on...   Jan 7 2004, 04:41 PM
- - Austere Emancipator   Raygun, do you know how much the projectile in any...   Jan 7 2004, 04:54 PM
- - Foreigner   Raygun: I stand (okay, SIT ) corrected. I ...   Jan 7 2004, 05:38 PM
- - Req   QUOTE (Foreigner) (3) He also couldn't seem to...   Jan 7 2004, 07:12 PM
- - Kagetenshi   It is indeed. ~J   Jan 7 2004, 07:14 PM
- - Foreigner   Whoops! Sorry, my bad! Guess I submitted ...   Jan 7 2004, 07:21 PM
- - Austere Emancipator   Someone really ought to teach people to use Google...   Jan 7 2004, 07:25 PM
- - Req   Yeah, well, the biologist in me positively cringed...   Jan 7 2004, 09:18 PM
- - Austere Emancipator   Since the whole movie is about vampires and vampir...   Jan 7 2004, 09:31 PM
- - Kagetenshi   Well, they do have to identify the need for the bu...   Jan 7 2004, 09:33 PM
- - Austere Emancipator   How hard could that possibly be, with hundreds of ...   Jan 7 2004, 09:43 PM
- - Siege   Feh. Blade was good, Blade 2 just started bad and...   Jan 8 2004, 01:10 AM
- - Austere Emancipator   QUOTE (Siege)Although I gotta admit, the mouth-spl...   Jan 8 2004, 02:55 AM
- - Raygun   QUOTE (Austere Emancipator)Raygun, do you know how...   Jan 8 2004, 04:08 AM
- - Siege   QUOTE (Austere Emancipator) QUOTE (Siege)Although ...   Jan 8 2004, 04:33 AM
- - Austere Emancipator   QUOTE (Raygun)M406 projectile weight is 170 grams ...   Jan 8 2004, 10:38 AM
- - Senor 187   I am beautiful.   Jan 8 2004, 06:16 PM
- - Req   I...am Sancho.   Jan 8 2004, 07:38 PM
- - Raygun   QUOTE (Austere Emancipator)That'd make the muz...   Jan 8 2004, 07:39 PM
- - Austere Emancipator   QUOTE (Raygun)Hell, put a stock and a pistol grip ...   Jan 8 2004, 09:09 PM


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