DUmmy cites a role playing web site for shotgun stats!

[WBL 1952]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x418777

[WBL 1952]

Do these people have a clue? This DUmmy went to google and saw something that said shotgun stats and went and posted it as evidence that the Cheney's firearm within 20 inches (I kid you NOT!) of the attorney! Turns out it was a roleplaying website and the stats were for their roleplaying armaments!

What a bunch of lunatics!

[mnehring]

I thought you were kidding until I checked.. This explains a lot.. I'm sure most are really high school or college kids role playing political activists themselves...

[FormerACLUmember]

Contact with reality is not a hallmark of DUh.

[Bahbah]

On one of their threads yesterday they believed that the VP of the United States of America would have to dial 911 to get an ambulance to take his friend to the hospital. How old are these people?

[BenLurkin]

At 20 inches this accident would have been a tragedy.

[pillut48]

BIG difference between 20 *inches* and 90 *feet*, ain't there? "No Child Left Behind" has missed a few people over there on DU, methinks...

[MeanWestTexan]

Correct.

The pattern would still be very tight and have much greater velocity --- i.e. more like a bullet and less like poppy-seed-sized BB's.

[Hoodat]

Heck, at 20 inches, the VP might have gotten a ricochet wound.

[KarlInOhio]

That's from Car Wars. I played a lot of it in college. The ground scale was 1" = 15 feet, so the danger range was 300 feet.

[Brian Mosely]

Role playing game, eh? Good thing the lawyer made his saving throw...

[discostu]

Car Wars no less. I could see it if it was a game by R Talstorian or Leading Edge, those companies did a lot of research into ballistic data and got a lot of interesting data from the FBI on penetrating damage (especially Leading Edge, their damage charts are kind of gruesome). But Steve Jackson is all about game balance and playability.

[Beagle8U]

Lol...one of those DUcks posted a shotgun pellet chart later in that thread to show what pellet sizes looked like.

The chart has 000 buck blown up to about 65 cal.!!

What morons they are.

[Sir Gawain]

Roll the d20 to save for half damage!

[Fenris6]

I disbelieve! LOL. Its DU alternate reality.

[The_Reader_David]

Actually, what's really funny isn't just citing RPG stats, but citing stats from a product of Steve Jackson Games.

Some RPG's, like their forebearers, board wargames, are designed by people who go to a lot of trouble to provide an accurate model of real-world combat. Steve Jackson's products, on the other hand, are generally whimiscal nonsense--often being parodies of other RPGs, and of gamer behavior (as in the Munchkin series).

[Steel Wolf]

How much xp is a 78 year old Lawyer worth, anyway? I figure that Cheney was probably pretty close to leveling, but the quail just weren't getting him there fast enough. Or maybe the lawyer was kill stealing or ninja looting his quail? Not smart on his part, as they were apparently in a PvP zone at the time.

[nonkultur]

He deleted his original post but luckily we saved it over at CU.
http://www.conservativeunderground.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31621

caledesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Feb-14-06 04:31 PM
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Birdshot, my ass. Check this out.

Edited on Tue Feb-14-06 04:42 PM by caledesi
Shotgun type Damage Ammo
Cost To-Hit Light Medium Heavy MaximumRange

Buckshot x1 9 1 hit* 2 hits* 3 hits* 30"
Magnum Buckshot x5 9 NA 3 hits* 4 hits* 30"
Tungsten Core Buckshot x5 9 NA 2 hits* 3 hits* 45"

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Birdshot x1 10 1 hit* 2 hits* 3 hits* 20"

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That's right 20" NOT 30 FEET!


Solid Slug x5 8 1d2* 1d3+1* 1d6* 45"
Incendiary Slug x10 8 NA 1d3*I 1d3+2*I 45"
Sabot Slug x10 8 NA 1d3* 1d6-1* 60"
Dragons Breath x15 9 NA 1d3*I 1d6*I 20"
Flechettes x10 9 NA 2 hits* 3 hits* 60"
Mini-grenade $25*P 7 NA 1d6** 1d6** 45"
Mini-missile x100 8 NA 1d6 1d6+2 60"
Smoke $50*P 7 NA special special 45"
http://staff.bus.brighton.ac.uk/fesg/carwars/shotgun.html

[KarlInOhio]

Self-Delete due to extreme stupidity.

Well the first step to solving your problem is admitting you have a problem.

[Starter]

Well then. The shooting shooting be a problem then. All they have to do is activate Whittington's Gold Cross account, and he'll be a-okay. (And physically about 20 years old to boot!)

[Starter]

Good lord. What did I type? Let's try that again.

Well then. The shooting shouldn't be a problem then. All they have to do is activate Whittington's Gold Cross account, and he'll be a-okay. (And physically about 20 years old to boot!)