>>43340772That's it. I'm sick of all this "Masterwork Katana" bullshit that's going on in the d20 system right now. Shotguns deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that.
I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine shotgun in Texas for $20,000 (that's about 2,400,000 Yen) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even shoot through slabs of solid steel with my shotgun.
Texan gunsmiths spend years working on a single shotgun and fold it up to a million times to produce the finest barrels known to mankind.
Shotguns are thrice as penetrating as Japanese swords and thrice as painful for that matter too. Anything a katana can cut through, a shotgun can blast through better. I'm pretty sure a shotgun could easily disembowel a knight wearing full plate with a simple point blank shot.
Ever wonder why feudal Japan never bothered conquering America? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined rednecks and their shotguns of destruction. Even in World War II, Japanese soldiers targeted the men with the shotguns first because their killing power was feared and respected.
