What does Sharpshooter’s suppressing fire effect look like in the fiction? How do you keep up a steady rate of fire when all your guns are single shot?
What does Sharpshooter’s suppressing fire effect look like in the fiction?
What does Sharpshooter’s suppressing fire effect look like in the fiction?
NB: my favorite answer, ask the player, doesn’t work here. I’m the player, and I have no idea!
Suppressing fire could just be firing a shot whenever someone tries to pop their head up, maybe shouting warnings to them or threatening them. Maybe it entails having a second (or third, or fourth) gun ready to fire again (or at least making the other person believe you do). Maybe it’s having (or saying you have) additional gunmen in the area. I guess the main effect of covering fire is to keep your opponent from shooting or moving, so anything that does that could work. Doesn’t have to be the same every time even.
The have a brace of pistols? Also the hounds pistols have two shots each. So if you want to be reeeeally stingy, that’s 6 shots for 3 load (1 load for a hounds pistols, 2 load for two more “normal” pistols). I wouldn’t be stingy however. Sharpshooter should allow quick reloads, and it’s not like this is taking place necessarily in a six second round or anything. The whole process is a single roll. Taking a shot at anyone poking their head out would be enough to “suppress.”
You have six guns.
You have duckfoot pistols.
You have six duckfoot pistols.
A simple interpretation would be that you carefully line up your ammo in front of yourself, maybe even put it between your teeth; and then you just reload really, really fast with fingers moving on pure, trained reflexes, faster than your own eyes can follow.
You have to push yourself, after all.
Or, something more fanciful: maybe your pet is a monkey that can reload for you while you shoot a second gun.