24 October 2023

Does It GURPS


Paw Paw shares a charming story of love and .25 ACP.

125 yard head shot.  Dead right there.

A Raven does 1d pi- and has 90/950 for range.

That's past the 1/2d distance and will be a -11 to hit.

Apparently, Dindu's player made some amazing die rolls.

Pretty much has to be a critical success to hit at all with the typical exhibited skill of the average Dindu.

Then he rolled another 3 to hit the skull.

Then he rolled an 18 to get, "The blow does triple damage."

Then he rolled a 6 for damage which gets halved to 3 and 1 penetrates that does 12x damage.

We'll be charitable and assume that Gonorea has a 10 HT and 10 HP.

12 points of damage is just barely enough to get a consciousness roll, so...

If they rolled a 3 on the critical head blow table, then no DR from the skull and all 3 penetrate.  That becomes 12 as well...

No, this shoot does not GURPS.

If it were slightly closer, the 6 damage would be 4 penetrated and 48 damage.  That'll do it. 

This is why we don't use GURPS to do real world planning about what guns really work.

1 comment:

  1. Pretty much the same result of a random New Year's Day 'celebratory' firing a firearm in the air and having the bullet strike and kill a person. Dumb luck ! The victim surely was unlucky.

    jrg

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