Lock and Load!, a Fan-Created Sourcebook Touchhole
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A f a n - m a d e s o u r c e b o o k f o r B i g E y e s S m a l l M o u t h , 3 r d E d i t i o n W R I T T E N B Y :: A n i m e K i d d @ a o l . c o m V E R S I O N :: N O V E M B E R 2 8 t h , 2 0 0 7 Table of Contents C hapter Zero — Introduction 3 A Word of Warning 3 Required Materials 3 Brief History of Firearms 3 Glossary 4 C hapter One ― Handguns 7 C hapter Two ― Light Automatics 9 C hapter Three ― Rifles 10 Chapt er Four ― Shotguns 13 C hapter Five ― Machineguns 14 C hapter Six ― Heavy Weapons 15 Chapt er Seven ― Oddities 18 Chapt er Eight ― Blackpowder Weapons 20 Heavy Blackpowder Weapons 21 Chapt er Nine ― Space-Age Weaponry 23 Charge Firearms 23 Sabot Weapons 24 Electromagnetic Weapons 24 Direct-Energy Weapons 25 Heavy Space-Age Weapons 27 Chapt er Ten ― Explosives 28 Conventional Explosives 28 Conventional Grenades 29 Conventional Mines 30 Space-Age Explosives 30 Space-Age Grenades 31 Space-Age Mines 31 Chapt er Eleven ― Field Gear 33 Ammunition Magazines 33 Weapon Accessories 33 Optic Devices 33 Suits 33 Kits 34 Team Outfitting 34 Ammunition 35 Body Armor 37 Chapt er Twelve ― Rules of Engagement 39 A ppendix ― Hollywood Weaponry 41 Sp ecial Thanks 45 Ref erences 45 Co pyrights 45 deliver the burning matchrope to the touchhole. Chapter Zero After the arquebus came the first of the true firearms, the matchlock. The matchlock mechanism allowed the Introduction weapon to be cocked and readied, and only needed the press of a trigger to release the spring-held match into the Welcome to Lock and Load!, a fan-created sourcebook touchhole. Matchlocks were the standard mechanism for on firearms for the Big Eyes Small Mouth 3rd Edition firearms for nearly two-hundred years. Other mechanisms roleplaying game system. This book was originally made were also seen; the wheellock with it's spring-driven for modern-day weapons in mind, but I have expanded wheel and striker that produced the much needed spark to the selection to include the more antiquated firearms, as fire the weapon, and the snaplock. After the matchlock well as space-age weapons. The book has a list of pistols, came the flintlock. The flintlock was a vast improvement rifles, submachine guns, machineguns, along with some as it have a cover over the priming pan so that the of the heavier weapons, like the truly cinematic, barely weapon was more reliable in bad weather. After the man-portable gatling gun and the flamethrower. It even flintlock was the percussion cap, a small nib that when details some of non-lethal and oddest of weapons, like a struck with a hammer of a firearm would burst open and ballistic knife or a super-sticky foam sprayer. All in all, send a small flame into a hollow nipple that led to the this totals well over 100 weapons, not including powder charge. explosives. Other mechanisms are the lever-action, bolt-action, pump-action and revolvers. Lever-actions were used in A Word of Warning many rifles, but the most famed firearm that used this sort While I do realize this is a game book, I feel like I have of mechanism was the Henry and Winchester rifles. The to point out something; I must confess that I am not very bolt-action is still used today in many hunting rifles and knowledgeable when it comes to firearms, I just know in police and military sniper rifles. Pump-action is well- what I've read in books. While writing this, I tried to be known and commonly seen in shotguns, but they were as accurate as possible but I aimed for playability over some rifles that used it as well. Revolvers are often realism. Also what is found within this sourcebook is not thought of as being only used in handguns, but there was 100% accurate, and shouldn’t be used as a real world one rifle that did incorporate a revolving chamber reference for firearms, there are many books on the mechanism, though the results were mixed. subject that provide a lot more useful, and accurate Other innovations of firearm technology that led to the information then here. modern technology of today was riffling, the minie ball, smokeless powder, and the cartridge. Riffling are those Required Materials grooves found inside the barrel, these grooves put a spin on the bullet as it traveled down the barrel and gave it Before we get started, it is important to know that this better accuracy then a smoothbore barrel. Though riffling sourcebook was created for the Big Eyes Small Mouth was an improvement in accuracy, the grooves in the 3rd Edition roleplaying game written by Mark C. barrel made it a bit harder to reload because of the tighter McKinnon and David Pulver, and published by Arthaus, fit. The next innovation was the minie ball, a small Inc. Nothing else is needed besides that book, a pair of conical bullet similar to today's bullets, but it had a six-sided dice, pencils, paper, and of course some friends concave impression on the backside. As the powder was to game with. ignited, the gases expanded into this hollow base and flexed the bullet to make an air-tight seal, allowing the Brief History on Firearms bullet to use the full force of the expanding gases inside It is generally believed that the Chinese were the first to the barrel. Using the minie ball allowed for some terrific find out about gunpowder before the Western world and long-range shots with a riffled firearm. Smokeless have used it in fireworks, and the occasional gunpowder powder was an improvement on blackpowder. This weapons like rockets. When it was brought to the West gunpowder was more explosive and didn't leave a tell- and the firearm technology was in it's infancy, firearms tale sign of smoke when the weapon was fired as were nothing more then a small, hand-held muzzle- blackpowder. Smokeless powder is the reason the size of loading cannon that was fired by pointing a red-hot poker the bullets dropped in size during the later half of the into a touchhole to ignite the powder charge; this was the 19th-century. The last innovation was the cartridge, a hand cannon. After the hand cannon came the single unit that contained the propellant and the bullet in arequebus, or hackbut, that had a wooden stock and one. This allowed for firearms to be reloaded faster. At resembled a modern rifle of today. The weapon was put first there were paper or linen cartridges that was opened on a aiming post and a trigger mechanism was used to and the contents pushed into a muzzle-loading barrel. The metallic cartridge, which is still in use today, is the one weapon. that has powder, bullet, and the firing charge at the base. The metallic cartridge was more resistant to foul weather Bolt-action Rifle: A rifle that has a and allowed it to be used in automatic self-reloading like manually operated bolt. To operate bolt-action rifles and semi- and automatic firearms. this weapon, the user must turn the During the 20th-century, firearms technology sky- bolt with the bolt-handle and pull it rocketed. It was during the beginning of the 1900s that back, then bring it forward, and pull automatic firearms were starting to pop up. The heavy the bolt-handle down again. This hand-cranked gatling gun during the US Civil War gave action will arm the firing pin, making way to the true automatic machiengun of World War I, it ready to fire. If the weapon has a and remains an important military weapon today. magazine, this action will also remove Submachine guns, automatic rifles, and self-loading any cartridge in the chamber (spent or semiautomatic rifles all started to appear during this time. not) and reload a new cartridge from Today, firearms have become far more capable in range, the magazine. accuracy, reliability, and lethality, then those in previous ages, and certainly will become more advanced and Burst-Fire: Burst-fire is a short burst of deadly in the ages to come. automatic fire, usually firing three or five rounds in a single pull of the Glossary trigger. Burst-fire came about when it What follows is a list of terms that I have included here was noticed that short bursts of and used within this sourcebook. Some of these words automatic fire was more accurate and found here do not follow the proper definitions as found easier to manage then longer bursts of in the real world counterpart. While I have tried to stay as full automatic fire. many burst-fire true as possible to the actual definition as I can, the weapons are also selective-fire, definitions here are based on how they are represented capable of switching between single within this sourcebook and should not be thought of as shots and/or full automatic fire. actual real world firearm terminology. Caliber: Caliber refers to the diameter of Assault Rifle: This term came into being a bullet, and is expressed either in after the German Army in WWII hundredths-of-an-inch (for example, introduced the MP44 Sturmgewehr, or ".45", meaning 0.45 inches across), or "assault rifle".