Alright, I need your guys' thoughts on another custom weapon I'm currently creating for a John Constantine-esque character. This guy might get chosen for a PbP here, and this is his weapon, so I could really use some opinions.

Here it goes:

Name: "Holy Shotgun" (tentative name; I need something original, so any thoughts on a name would be much appreciated too)

Frame: Shotgun
-Damage: 8S
-Mode: SA
-Conceal: 3
-Wt.: 4.5 kg.
-Ammo Cap: 5
-Load: ( m )
-Mounts: Barrel, Top, Underbarrel
-FCU: 2.5
-DPV: 130

Design Options

Ammo Loading (clip)
DP: +10
FCU: None
Wt: None
Conceal: -1

Barrel Extension
DP: +15
FCU: -.5
Wt: +.25 kg.
Conceal: -2

Heavy Barrel
DP: +25
FCU: -.25
Wt: +.5 kg.
Conceal: None

Increased Power (+2)
DP: +160
FCU: -.5
Wt: +.5 kg.
Conceal: None

Melee Hardening
DP: +15
FCU: -.5
Wt: +.25 kg.
Conceal: None

Selectable Clip
DP: +35
FCU: -.5
Wt: +.1 kg.
Conceal: -1

Weight Decrease (Level 6)
DP: +30
FCU: None
Wt: -1.5 kg.
Conceal: None

Modifications

Custom Finish (silver)
DP: +20

Embossing/Engraving
DP: +20
Phrase: "In nomine patri, et fili, et spiritus sancti"

Extended clip (+5 rounds each)
DP: +20

Laser Sight
Mount: Under
Wt: +.25 kg.
FCU: -.25
DP: +100

Appearance

Shotgun is in the shape of a cross. The vertical "beam" is the main part of the shotgun, with the top of the cross being where the pistol grip and trigger is, and the foot of the cross being where the exit of the barrel is. It appears to be an over-and-under double barreled shotgun, but the bottom barrel is actually the laser sight. The horizontal beam of the cross shape is made up of the two clips, one sticking out of each side.

Final Stats

Conceal: 0
Ammo: 10 ( c )/10 ( c )
Mode: SA
Damage: 10S
Wt: 4.85 kg.
Cost: 2,900
RC: 1

Ranges: S: 0 - 11, M: 12 - 22, L: 23 - 55, E: 56 - 110

Munchkin! You munchkin bastard! Oh, such a munchkin you are! How dare you!
Why not make it FA with weapon foci rounds?! Munchkin.



But seriously...

Seems interesting, and a pretty "even" weapon, as far as CC Firearms Design goes. Not a bad placement of the dual magazine option. I like how it fits in with the design of the gun.

Names:
Retributor, Intercessor, Divine Vengeance
Maybe try an online thesaurus for words like: angel, holy, sin, divine, etc., and
find one you like.

You made a shotgun without making it Conceal 7? How dare you!

~J

I'm not a fan of comic book style stuff, but this is fairly reasonable, though a full underbarrel laser sight seems rather unreasonably gigantic.

In fact, given the comic book style, it might make more sense to put a single shot grenade launcher in its place.

I'm with Kage, though. Shotguns aren't shotguns and assault rifles really aren't assault rifles until they're smaller than pistols.

Then what's in the rest of it?

But it's not pump action. You have it down as semiautomatic. Yes, there's a gas tube in that case, but not the full length of the barrel, and certainly not if you extended that anyway. Where's the superhero in you if you don't want to slap a grenade launcher under that thing?

You could call it the Hand of God.

my friend called the gun in the movie the god gun

Or, if not an underbarrel grenade launcher (which could be an excuse for all the pumps, etc, you seem to want), then at least an underbarrel stake-launcher (for your character).

I mean, laser sight? Any fool can have a laser sight. On your angry cross-shotgun you want something that'll maul evil, not just make a little red dot float around. Think big, if you're gonna think big.

It could very well have pump-action. See the SPAS-12, which is semiauto but has pump for when the thing's loaded with low-pressure rounds.

~J

Make the lasersight U.V. frequency capable to explain why it is so big and in the latin the Patri, Fili, and Spiritus Sancti are capatalized, proper nouns you know.

HMHVV Hunter:

I once saw a weapon in which I think you might be interested on the 'net.

IIRC, it was a SA/BF heavy pistol with an underbarrel minigrenade launcher.

Here it is: Shadownode

Left-click on "Equipment", then left-click on the subheading "Weapons."

The weapon you want is the "Dreadgun Heavy Automatic Dual Pistol".

It's the first one on that page.

Edit: Sorry. Messed up the link on the first try. It seems to work now, though.

--Foreigner

I say put in a pump-action CO2 powered stake-launcher. It would use those dinky little Co2 canisters found in some tools (the six gram ones) to fire, so every three shots or so you would use the pump-action to expel the spent cartridge and put in a new one. It would also be a very quiet weapon, which is a good thing if your only other option is spraying metal pellets at a few hundred miles per hour.

Some been watching Trigun?

...

I missed the Trigun part.

I used to have a Daisy Powerline 400 that would prove that fact to anyone. Where did that thing go... Man, it was so fun I nearly shot my eye out.

As far as the name goes, I got the idea of naming it after the Angel of Death, but I can't find any information on what the Angel of Death was called in Christianity. Anyone familiar with religion that can help with that?

There's always 'Abaddon' aka The Destroyer. (aka Apollyon). Azrael is an Angel of Death in some traditions (I can't remember which, but probably Islam and the Hebrew traditions). There's the Prophecy's route of Gabriel being the Angel of death (I'm not sure if this is even close to accurate).

Azrael's definitely Islamic, but Christianity doesn't seem to have a name for the Angel of Death, at least, not one specific one. Mostly it's taken from the Hebrew traditions where you have Sammael, Bebriel, Metatron, etc. The closest I think you're going to get is Abaddon, who's in the book of Revelations. Though, admittedly, I'm no expert.

Edit: As another thought, why not go the Milton route and name it Abdiel? The angel who stood up to Satan and rebuked him.

*shrug* maybe. Depends on who you talk to. Some say yae, some nae. Some go 'Who's Lucifer?'. Angelic lore is a twisted thing with little in the way of continuity or agreement. The one reference to a Lucifer in the bible was actually talking about a king who was being a dick to the Hebrews. Satan was god's advocate whose job it was to poke people into sinning. Whenever anything bad happened, it WAS god doing it because you pissed him off, or sometimes because he felt like it. At least in the Old Testament. In the new things changed in strange and interesting ways. If you can get ahold of the Essenian stories I've heard they've got Angels galore in them.