hey guys can someone tell me what action it would be to shoot someone with a rifle?

6 thoughts on “hey guys can someone tell me what action it would be to shoot someone with a rifle?”

1. I think it is hunt.

2. I think it depends on the situation. How do you use the weapon? If you do some “sharpshooting“ and have enough distance to the target, it’s hunt.

   In a close melee, you could use skirmish, if you are wrestling for the weapon.

   I would take wreck as blow with the rifle butt.

   But that’s just my personal feeling. As in every Action Roll, the player should decide with the use of fiction. Let the player explain/discribe.

3. I think sometimes it’s Finesse.

4. Hunt is specifically indicated as the default action for shooting. See pages 58 and 174.

   Also, what Frederick said. 🙂

5. Careful not to weasel, or let players weasel. It REALLY breaks your game. Hunt is pretty specifically for shooting. Maybe Skirmish if you’re attacking someone with the stock or a bayonet. The only way I could possibly see Wreck being used with a firearm would be something like “I shoot out the support (thing) with my high-powered rifle” where the issue is more about knowing WHAT to shoot, rather than whether you can HIT it.

6. Choosing an action is a free choice (you’re merely saying what your character is doing) — but the GM can say there’s no effect when you perform that action.

   You’re allowed to say that you Sway the door open, but what happens is you stand there and talk to it and it stays closed.

   This division of authority makes the game go faster. A player doesn’t have to ‘justify’ their action. They just say what they do, then the GM says the effect level (including none at all).

   If it’s a gray area, the GM adjusts the position or effect up or down. Much faster than winning an argument over which action is the ‘right’ one. The chosen action describes what your character is doing on screen — it may be effective or not, but it can’t be right or wrong.

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