13 February 2020

Birdshot VS Human


He ain't dead.

It doesn't look comfortable.

The thread I found the picture in estimates about 80 feet for range.

Call it 25 yards for GURPS purposes.

25 yards is outside the point blank range.

If it's one ounce of #4 each pellet should have done 1d-3(0.5) pi- and even an unarmored target gets DR1 against it.  It's impossible to roll well enough in GURPS to hit with as many pellets as have obviously hit him.  But small-shot isn't really the damage per pellet but the dice reflect the effect of several.

There's 134 pellets in an ounce of #4.  That's a +6 to hit and 25 yards gives -7...  Net -1.

So if you were trying for this with a skill of 12 you'd need an 11 or less to hit.  A critical success roll of 3 would still just land 8 hits.

On average, that critical hit would do 0 points.  But those zero point hits would still hurt and bleed.

Max damage for the crit hit is 8 once you add everything up.

The average to-hit roll only lands two hits.  Still zero points on average with a max chance of 2 hits delivered.

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