Interestingly the majority of people who died from early gunshot wounds tended to actually die from secondary infections, rather than the wounds themselves. Indeed gunpowder was for a while considered poisonous, cures including such weird and wonderful things as 'boiled puppy dog fat'. In most cases however such infections arouse more as result of poor sanitary conditions and foreign objects left in the wound (fragments of clothing etc).

The Snap Flintlock System.

Every player has a primary flintlock weapon. They each load a cap from a powder pouch. This pouch has a mixture of different coloured caps, lets say red, blue and gold. The selection of which coloured cap is loaded is random due to the player fumbling in the pouch, plus the caps could be wrapped in paper to increase reload time. The player fires by shouting at the target to make them aware of the shot, firing the pistol, then calling the colour of the cap that was loaded. If the target has the same coloured cap loaded then they just react that it was a miss. If the target then wants to return fire at the same person that shot at him and missed they don’t have to call that colour because that colour would be the same. They can just call any random one. However, if they select a different target they must call the colour they have loaded. Everybody then reloads and goes by the next colour they have pulled from their pouch. It’s only a rough idea and has gaps in it, such as how do you tell which colour is loaded at night, what happens if a player is a non combat type without a gun, what happens if someone is fired at whilst they are reloading (in between colours). But I believe it has possibilities and adds random missing opportunities.

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RL: Mr Sofar

Curved core weaponry and bespoke stuff.

ShelfordFX

Any character learning to fire a gun, chooses four 'phrases' from a short list. Upon discharging there weapon, they recite one of these.'Oi Codfish, in the face!'

Each character is handed a 'phrasal protection card' at the start of the game, this lists a single phrase which the character upon hearing may ignore with a curt rebuttal (which acts a No Effect call), 'To hell with you!'.

You can then introduce skills which allow players to increase the number of offensive 'phrases' on their sheet, or to their 'phrasal protection card'. Or even to refresh or change these lists via a GOD system.

You could even make some of the phrases have different damage effects, making there more likely to be chosen as defenses.(Shooting someone in the eye is pretty difficult but if it succeeds, it will kill them).

Not really. Its a trust system, just like a fireball in high fantasy.

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