Burst:  User may fire up to the RoF of the weapon in question; every shot after the first is at a penalty equal to Recoil * the number of shots before it. (For instance, most weapons have an RoF of three - the second shot would get a penalty equal to that listed under Recoil, the third would get double this penalty, and so on.) Any shot that is reduced below 15 by Recoil penalties is considered a miss; however, shots are considered as what has been rolled for purposes such as critical hits or misses, or for damage on shots that do hit.

Snap Shot:  A snap shot may be taken at any time that the user has the gun drawn and is ready to shoot! This can only be done once per turn, but can allow the user to interrupt someone else's action (he's -what-?! Shoot the damned mage!) with up to his RoF in shots. Snap shots are at -d10 (minimum d20), but are sometimes necessary in bad situations. Snap shots -can- be aimed shots - for instance, this might be used for a gun-to-the-head scenario. Obviously the unfortunate victim would not get a dodge, while the hostage-taker might use said victim as a bullet shield.

Price:  Price bought new from the manufacturers at a time it is in common use.

Perception:  How easy it is to spot on a person by casually looking - +2 if the person is holding it, though seeing the object does not assume you know what it is.

Accuracy:  The amount this weapon adds to your sides to determine if you hit, if you take the time to aim. Aiming basically requires that nobody have hit you between this attack and the last turn. You can aim into successive turns - up to three turns of aiming will provide a +d5 per turn.

Damage:  The basic damage the weapon inflicts.

Range:  The distance at which the weapon inflicts half damage; usually about 10 * range is the distance at which the weapon is completely inert, the bullet stops traveling, the beam ends, etc. Important mainly from GM's point of view. (I don't care if you have super-telescopic sights and have a clear shot over 12 parsecs, you cannot assassinate the Alphan ambassador from here!)

RoF:  Rate of Fire. Most weapons can be fired 3 times in a combat turn without too many problems, even if they are single-shot weapons; however, Recoil penalties occur for every shot after the first.

Recoil:  This is the amount that the weapon moves when fired - your perfect first shot may be slightly better than the twenty-four other shots that the machine gun took this round. Recoil of X/Y means that every group of Y shots (including the first group!) is at a penalty of X.

Ammunition:  The type of ammo it takes, and how much it can hold - for a power cell, this is how many shots per power cell.

Other Notes:  Other things you should know about the weapon.

Shotgun: 1d10 per barrel, +d2 to hit for single barrel, +d5 to hit for double, low range but can hit small groups in close proximity.

TestDummy is a pretty good marksman (just believe us for now), and has an effective d50 when using his handgun. He shows off by firing at three targets in quick succession.

TestDummy rolled this on 3d50:   50   24   20.

However, his pistol has a Recoil of -5; under the above rules, the second die would be an effective 19 (1 hit - merely grazes the target), and the third die would effectively be 10 (a miss), for purposes of whether it hit or not, and how much damage it inflicted. For purposes of dodging, though, the shot is considered as rolled (dodging the second bullet would require a roll vs 24.)

Normal bullets are lead... a .22 bullet costs $.05, a .38 or 9mm bullet costs $.10, a .45 bullet or shotgun shell costs $.25, and a .50 bullet costs $.50, in KIB currency (Shirans).

Incidentally, marbles cost the same as a .38 bullet.