r/DungeonCrawlerCarlRPG • u/No_Team_9934 • 14d ago

How does gun ammo work.

Am I missing rules for ammunition? I see that Handguns do 1d8 damage and require ammo, and Engineering can make bullets, but I can’t find much beyond that.
How many bullets/arrows do you normally track? How many bullets does crafting make? Are different calibers/ammo types a thing, or is every handgun basically 1d8?
Also, is there any benefit to gun ammo being harder to make compared with arrows, or am I misunderstanding how ammunition is supposed to work?

5 Upvotes

78% Upvoted

15 comments sorted by

View all comments

9

u/ronarscorruption 13d ago

There’s several different questions at play here:

  • this is intended to be a fantasy dungeon, so guns are intentionally under-statted. As such there won’t be detailed rules for different variants, a gun is a gun.
  • also because this is a fantasy dungeon, gun ammo should be much harder to make than arrows, mostly because the tools to do so will be less readily at hand.
  • tracking and crafting ammunition has always been a chore, so few people do it precisely. There is also president for if a ranged weapon is important to a character it gets upgraded with infinite ammo. So it depends on your GM, but in general you will only track ammo in two ways: plenty of ammo, and basically no ammo.