GLoGtober Day 1: Shooty Shooties

 On the first day of GLoGtober, the bloggers gave to me…

Some gun rules for you and me

There’s a sense of playful glee you get from inspiring terrified awe in medieval peasants by using anachronistic technology, be it a flintlock, AK, or even a laser pistol. The theme for the first day of GLoGtober is “guns”, so here are rules for pew pews.

Gun damage explodes. Don’t use the tables in the back- a smaller gun deals a d6, a medium gun uses a d8, a large gun uses a d10, and the truly remarkable guns like laser pistols and machine guns use 2d6. (MARROW revision: Guns dead 1d4+(Slots occupied - 2) damage, no exploding the die.) If you roll a 1 while using a gun, roll on the Gun Misfire table below:

1 Kaboom. Roll damage as normal. You take that much.

2 Jammed. Make 3 successful INT rolls with tinker’s/gunsmith’s tools to repair. Until then, the gun is unusable.

3 Out of Ammo. Spend 20g and a long rest doing nothing else (gaining no benefits) to make sufficient ammo to keep using the gun unhindered.

4 Catastrophic Miss. The attack hits the nearest ally to you.

5 Preemptive Ignition. The gun bursts into flame. Not only is it now a useless hunk of scrap metal, i has started a fire right in front of you that is swiftly spreading.

6 Packed the Wrong One! The gun was actually a decoy! It actually fires (and will continue to fire):

1 water

2 rat piss

3 apple juice

4 ball bearings

5 very tiny nets

6 verses of scripture, in fortune-cookie format

7 healing needles

8 gasoline...

7 Smoke Signal. The gun starts pouring out smoke. Roll a random encounter. It will arrive in d4 rounds.

8 Blast so loud it wakes the dead. Roll damage. That many skeletons rise from the earth, hostile to all living things they can see.

GUNSMITH

Gunsmith SKILLS: Pew pew! Kabloosh! Nyoooom, pow!

A You don’t actually have a gun, it’s a vaguely gun-shaped stick. The stick is unbreakable. You perceive it as an unbreakable gun that without fail seems to miss.

B Somehow, against all odds, the stick actually functions exactly like a gun.

C You are very good at shooting with the stick. You can shoot it twice in an action.

D You can share your powerful imagination. Once a day, imagine something, and it is there until you imagine something else. In addition, any stick you touch you can make into a gun.

LOOT: Totally A Gun, Like, A Really Good Gun (Like One With A Scope And Bullets And Everything)

Guns aren’t my area of expertise, so I’m excited to see everyone else’s take on guns and revise my rules appropriately! Happy GLoGtober, here’s to 30 more days of fun content.