HeapThaumaturgist
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Well what are we considering "Victorian"?
The Victorian era stretches from 1836 (or 1837, I forget) to 1900 or so.
If you're running early Victorian (36-65) then the most common weapons will be muzzle-loaded percussion-cap type weapons (which in d20M should pretty much be the same as flintlocks and whatever).
Later Victorian (65-00) will probably have cartridge weapons, which are going to be the same as modern weapons, though there aren't any box magazines and speed-loaders.
My own rules, a muzzle-loaded weapon takes 2 full-round actions to reload one barrel (most have one, but there are muzzle-loaded revolvers and pepperboxes and the like). A solid-frame or gate revolver requires two full-round actions to fully unload/reload (since you're pushing out the expended cartridges one by one and putting in new cartridges). Around 1868 you get the first top-break revolvers, which break forward with an automatic extractor ... that's when you get regular d20Modern reload times. Most of the rifles of that period would be, in game terms, 1 Internal mags. IIRC, some of the smaller/shorter cartridge rifles have larger internal magazines, but I can't think of anything that has a removable magazine ... maybe the Springfield carbine had an after-market loader that would use similar rules.
Most "things" seem to take place late-Victorian ... steampunk, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1898), etc. Most handguns would then be 5-6 shot revolvers, possibly even top-breaks if you're going really late (I want to say Webley moved to top-break late in the century or very early the next, and was adopted by the military). If you've got top-break revolvers, they'll be reloading as fast as Modern/Modern. Some of the rifles will have multiple-round magazines ... the Winchester 73 comes to mind.
So, 20-30 year difference in game-time will wildly change how your characters are approaching weapons.
--fje
The Victorian era stretches from 1836 (or 1837, I forget) to 1900 or so.
If you're running early Victorian (36-65) then the most common weapons will be muzzle-loaded percussion-cap type weapons (which in d20M should pretty much be the same as flintlocks and whatever).
Later Victorian (65-00) will probably have cartridge weapons, which are going to be the same as modern weapons, though there aren't any box magazines and speed-loaders.
My own rules, a muzzle-loaded weapon takes 2 full-round actions to reload one barrel (most have one, but there are muzzle-loaded revolvers and pepperboxes and the like). A solid-frame or gate revolver requires two full-round actions to fully unload/reload (since you're pushing out the expended cartridges one by one and putting in new cartridges). Around 1868 you get the first top-break revolvers, which break forward with an automatic extractor ... that's when you get regular d20Modern reload times. Most of the rifles of that period would be, in game terms, 1 Internal mags. IIRC, some of the smaller/shorter cartridge rifles have larger internal magazines, but I can't think of anything that has a removable magazine ... maybe the Springfield carbine had an after-market loader that would use similar rules.
Most "things" seem to take place late-Victorian ... steampunk, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1898), etc. Most handguns would then be 5-6 shot revolvers, possibly even top-breaks if you're going really late (I want to say Webley moved to top-break late in the century or very early the next, and was adopted by the military). If you've got top-break revolvers, they'll be reloading as fast as Modern/Modern. Some of the rifles will have multiple-round magazines ... the Winchester 73 comes to mind.
So, 20-30 year difference in game-time will wildly change how your characters are approaching weapons.
--fje
