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Very true. I have a persistent nagging desire to keep one of these fuckers loaded up in the console of my truck just for the hell of it. Could you imagine the look on the faces of the cops arriving on the scene after someone smoked a carjacker with one of those things?
The best part is the cops could get in on the fun because they'd have to take it out and shoot it to empty it before they could take it into evidence. Ha ha.
The best part is the cops could get in on the fun because they'd have to take it out and shoot it to empty it before they could take it into evidence. Ha ha.
So, then I am thinking, in Shadowrun, one of the themes is paranoia. Every item can have some form of tracking associated with it. The gun you buy from your fixer may be hot. When the topic of cased versus caseless ammunition comes up, whether or not it's a realistic assertion, someone always says, "Oh with caseless you leave less evidence behind."
What better way to get around all the creepy big-brotherism of the setting than running with a brace of cap and ball revolvers? You manufacture your own black powder, you don't drop casings, and a large caliber slow-velocity lead bullet going through someone's chest is still super deadly.
In terms of game statistics, I'd make a black powder revolver perform worse against ballistic armor than a contemporary firearm, due to greater energy of smokeless powder and full metal jacket bullets in the contemporary firearm. I'd also give it a seperate set of range categories a bit shorter than a contemporary firearm, again due to the lower energy of the blackpowder load.
Perhaps the smoke caused by repeated firing of your blackpowder weapon could cause visibility based penalties for everyone involved in the firefight standing near you (including yourself) and people shooting at you.
Depending on how detailed you wanted to get, the GM could also come up with an extra roll for failure to fire depending on how long the blackpowder has been sitting in the gun, or the weather conditions. That's why you have a brace of pistols.
It's hard to imagine a better way to make your shadowrun character a raging badass than by having him terminate his cybered nemesis with a blackpowder weapon. Your enemy pulls out his caseless rifle, thinking he's the man, and then pop, low velocity lead bullet with a called shot, and the ownage ratio just gets absolutely huge in your favor since you were running a cap and ball pistol versus his G11.
If you think reloading a centerfire revolver in the middle of combat is masculine and badass, think how much more masculine and badass it would be to reload the cylinder on a cap and ball revolver...in combat. You'd have to have antifreeze running in your veins.
Yeah...if I ever play Shadowrun again, I'm going to make a character who runs cap and ball revolvers, and a musket with a bayonet.