SDLeary

Some of the weapon damage has changed for some reason. .375 Magnum: 1d8+1d4 in the current Cthulhu, and 1d8+1d6 in Cthulhu Now. The .38 Automatic is currently 1d10, was 1d8 in CN. Looks like a few others too, but pistols have been mentioned, so there ya go.

Yes and no. At least in Cthulhu. There is a spot rule on p.63, current edition. It is written thus: Unaimed Shots The shots-per-round entries for firearms assume that a shooter has an ernest desire to hit the target, and thus aims with care. As a general guide, unaimed fire allows twice the number of attacks per round listed for the weapon on the Weapons Table. Reduce the shooter's chance to hit to one fifth of normal. ... This is slightly different from the way it appeared in its first iteration in Chtulhu Now: ... some desire to hit the target and takes time to aim. If the character simply wants to blaze away, he can get off 4 shots per round from any pistol or semi-automatic rifle, 3 shots per round from any pump-action or lever-action gun or 1 shot per round from any bolt-action weapon. The chance there is also one fifth. Also in Chtulhu Now, if you used the optional Hit Locations rule, you had another option, Aimed Shots, which applied called location shots from RQ to firearms. SDLeary

He was using the Jane's as a reference when working specifically on Cthulhu Now. I'll have to go back and compare those tables to the current edition. SDLeary

Very true. But for a simple (in terms of combat) game like Cthulhu, it made sense. And it does give a very very good baseline to work from. By enforcing impailing (I would limit this to first round in a burst, as in the rules), and criticals, you enable almost any round to not only take big hulking types down, but to kill them. I've been toying with the idea that criticals are auto death in the head and chest, but for NPCs... kindof a toned down mook rule. Adding special rules for round types, etc., would cover most variation. For example, the 4.6 x 30mm round used in the new MP7 PDW. Its a small and light round (For those of us in the states, the bullet is .177 cal., the same as many air rifles). Because of this the actual standard damage should be low. The round has excellent armor penetration though. On a special, I would allow three rolls of the dice for damage, similar to the way a rapier impales in RQ. Other options might be impaling for jacketed rounds, and nothing special for unjacketed. Not sure about hollow points and the like though. The extremely long winded point being that the current tables can be tweaked for better real world performance, and left alone for the light games. SDLeary

And, FWIW, when Sandy devised the damages for Cthulhu Now, he did use Jane's. IIRC, he based the damage on the amount of pressure at impact. It seems to make more sense, as listed above, to enforce Impale and Critical hits, along with major wound than to rework the whole list. SDLeary